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Hajjar Baban’s experience as an immigrant to America exists in all aspects of her work, she says, from “the words that I may obsess over to images that become motifs.”
Baban – who received a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2020 and is currently a Master of Fine Arts student in in the University of Virginia’s Creative Writing Program in poetry – was awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a merit-based award to support graduate study for immigrants and children of immigrants. Founded by Hungarian immigrants Daisy M. Soros and her late husband Paul Soros, the fellowship program honors the contributions of continuing generations of immigrants in the United States.
Today, the board of directors of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants, announced the program’s 2021 Fellows. Chosen from a pool of 2,445 applicants the most the program has ever received the 30 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows, with heritage in 20 countries, were selected for their potential to make significant contributions to the United States. They will each receive up to $90,000 in funding to support their graduate studies.
Eligible New Americans include green card holders, naturalized citizens, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients, individuals born abroad who graduated from both high school and college in the United States, and the U.S.-born children of two immigrants.
UW School of Public Health
Graduate student Naomi Nkinsi was chosen for the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
Naomi Nkinsi grew up in Yaoundé, Cameroon, speaking French, wearing brightly colored clothes, and her name was pronounced “Now-me.”
Her parents were from the Democratic Republic of Congo and she grew up with a rich history of African culture. But when she moved to a suburb of Atlanta when she was 6, she changed her name to “Nay-o-me” and ditched the brightly colored clothes for jeans and T-shirts. She struggled to fit in.
Nkinsi, now a third-year Global Health Pathway medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine and public health student at the University of Washington School of Public Health, is one of 30 winners of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Winners get $90,000 unless graduating sooner. This is a highly competitive fellowship looking for graduate students who are going to make the most significant c
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