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The 2024 Fellows: The New York Times Advertisement

Every year, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans takes out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times to announce the new class of Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows. Here are the 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows and their families with the advertisement. You can find the full class of 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows here.

Photograph of a man in his 20s with heritage from Mexico who has light skin tone and shaggy dark brown hair. He is standing in front of cherry blossom trees and holding a New York Times.
2024 Paul & Daisy Pablo Mejia is pictured with the New York Times advertisement in Washington Square Park, the unofficial quad of NYU where Pablo is studying film.
Photograph of a man in his 20s who has heritage from South Korea with light skin tone and short black hair. He stands in front of a large building with many windows that says "Penn" across the top.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Min Jae Kim standing outside of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital holding the New York Times advertisement for the 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows. Min Jae is an MD/PhD student studying neuroscience.
Photograph of a woman in her 20s who has heritage from Mexico with light skin tone and long curled dark brown hair. She is standing in a building with a lot of exposed duct work painted white.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Leslie Ponce-Diaz holding the New York Times advertisement at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where she is currently an MArch ll student studying architecture.
Photograph of a man in his 20s who has heritage from Colombia with light skin tone, short black hair, short beard and glasses. He is standing in front of a red brick building and bright pink flowers.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Geronimo Bejarano surrounded by beautiful flowers and holding the full page New York Times advertisement. Geronimo is pursuing a PhD in health services research at Brown University.
Photograph of a man in his 20s who has heritage from China with light skin tone and black hair. He is standing in front of a red brick building.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Zijian (William) Niu is sitting on a bench in front of the Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of Pennsylvania where he is a senior in college. Zijian will be pursuing a PhD in computational & systems biology at MIT in the fall.
Photograph of a woman in her 20s who has heritage from South Korea with light skin tone and long black hair. She is standing in front of a window overlooking a body of water, there is light wood around her inside.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Minjung Kim at Silverman Hall at Northwestern University looking out at Northwestern University Lakefill. Minjung is a PhD student in chemistry at Northwestern University.
Photograph of a woman in her 20s who has heritage from Philippines with light-medium skin tone and long black hair. She is mid-jump in excitement holding the New York Times.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Celine Calpo poses in front of Surfhenge in her hometown of Imperial Beach, California. Celine will be attending law school in the fall of 2024.
Photograph of a woman in her 20s who has heritage from Portugal who has light skin tone and shoulder length dark brown hair. She is standing in front of a grey stone building with columns.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Francisca Vaconcelos holding the New York Times advertisement at UC Berkeley where she studies computer science as a PhD student.
Photograph of a non-binary person in their 20s who has heritage from China with light skin tone and black pixie hair with curtain bangs. They are standing in a lab surrounded by technical equipment and holding the New York Times.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and physics PhD student Abigail Jiang in the Mundy Group Laboratory at Harvard next to their molecular beam epitaxy chamber system that they use to synthesize their thin film materials.
Photograph of a man in his 20s who has heritage from China with light skin tone and short black hair. He is standing on a rooftop overlooking a body of water.

2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Michael Xie holding the New York Times advertisement and overlooking Lake Union from the balcony of the Allen Institute in Seattle where he is currently conducting research.
Photograph of a man in his 20s who has heritage from China and Canada with light skin tone and short brown hair. He is standing on the steps of a building.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Russell Legate Yang holding the New York Times advertisement while standing outside the MIT Department of Economics housed in the Morris and Sophie Chang building affectionately called the MOSO.
Photograph of three people, mom, sister and dad of fellow Russell Legate-Yang. They are standing in front of an off-white wall.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Russell Legate Yang’s family holding the New York Times advertisement at their home in Swarthmore, PA.
Photograph of a man in his 20s who has heritage from Haiti with dark skin tone and buzzed black hair. He is standing under the overhang of a red brick building looking out on trees and green grass.
James Occean holding the New York Times advertisement on the Johns Hopkins campus where he is finishing his master’s before starting his PhD in cancer biology at Stanford.
Photograph of a man in his 20s who has heritage from Sierra Leone with dark skin tone, short black hair and short beard. He is sitting on a bench outside a store front, there is a white tile wall next to him with a vintage pay phone.

2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Saidu Tejan-Thomas holds the New York Times advertisement in a restaurant in New York where he lives and will be doing his MFA in acting.
Photograph of a man in his 20s who has heritage from Russia with light skin tone and shaggy brown hair. He is standing in front of a fountain with a building in the background and trees.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Michael Yusov standing in sunny California holding the New York Times advertisement.
Parents of a fellow stand in a field holding the New York Times and smiling at the camera.
The parents of 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Leslie Ponce Diaz holding the New York Times ad in Kansas City where Leslie grew up.
Photograph of a man in his 20s who has heritage from Indian with medium skin tone and short black hair. He is standing in front f a red building, with trees and grass visible.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Aayush Karan standing in front of the Harvard Museum of Natural History and holding the New York Times advertisement. Aayush is pursuing a PhD in quantum science and engineering at Harvard University.
Photograph of a woman in her 20s who has heritage from Haiti and the Philippines with light-medium skin tone and curly shoulder length black hair. She is standing in front of a tall bookshelf, filled with books.
Kristine Guillaume holding the New York TImes advertisement at Yale where she is a PhD student
Photograph of a woman in her 20s who has heritage from Iraq with light skin tone and long curly dark brown hair. The second woman in the photo, her roommate, has short brown hair and light skin tone.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Riyam and her roommate holding the 2024 advertisement. Riyam is a PhD student in biological engineering at MIT.
Photograph of a woman in her 20s who has heritage from Philippines with light-medium skin tone and chin length black hair. They are standing in front of a closed window with blinds.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Hannah Keziah Agustin flanked by her father and mother at their home in Madison, Wisconsin.
Photograph of a woman in her 20s who has heritage from Philippines and India with medium skin tone and long black hair. She is standing in front of a glass and stone building, additional buildings can be seen in the background.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Ananya Agustin Malhotra is holding the New York Times advertisement and is standing on a balcony at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft’s office in Washington, DC. Ananya will be attending Yale Law School in the fall.
Photograph of a woman in her 20s who has heritage from Hungary with light skin tone and long brown hair. She is sitting on a tree with grass and a body of water behind her. The sky is blue.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Sara Bobok holding the New York Times advertisement at Lake Lagunita on Stanford’s campus. Sara is a JD/MA student at Stanford University where she is focused on education.
Parents of a fellow stand stand holding the New York Times, there is a window behind them showing a red brick house.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Ananya Agustin Malhotra’s parents in Atlanta, Georgia with the New York Times ad
Photograph of a man in his 20s who has heritage from Myanmar with medium skin tone and short black hair. He is sitting on a green bench in front of a mural depicting people in a tropical forest doing various activities.
2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Kyaw Hsan Hlaing is an asylee from Myanmar and is standing in front of a mural at the University of Hawaii’s main campus.
Photograph of a woman in her 20s who has heritage from Palestine with light skin tone. She is wearing a pink hijab. She is standing on a staircase with trees behind her.
Parents of a Fellow stand in front of a wall with a black and white photograph of trees.
2024 Fellow Malavika Kannan’s parents holding the New York Times advertisement and pointing the picture of Malavika.

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