Supporting writers, journalists, and storytellers in completing ambitious new book projects, in collaboration with New America.
Current Fellows
Writers, journalists, and storytellers working on ambitious new book projects.
Azam Ahmed
Journalist
Reporter at the New York Times, and an author examining the nature of impunity in Mexico and its brutal toll on Mexican citizens.
Mona Chalabi
Data Journalist
Through reporting and hand-drawn illustrations, Mona Chalabi brings data to life, telling accessible stories about the numbers shaping our future.
Tanisha C. Ford
Historian and Author
Historian exploring how the intersecting forces of culture, economics, and philanthropy drive racial justice.
Justine van der Leun
Journalist
Independent journalist with a focus on the intersection of gender-based violence and the criminal legal system.
Abrahm Lustgarten
Investigative Reporter
Award-winning investigative reporter and author examining human adaptation to the climate crisis.
Former Fellows
Overview
In collaboration with New America, Emerson Collective supports remarkable journalists, scholars, and storytellers as Emerson Collective Fellows at New America.
The New America Fellows program gives talented writers the time, resources, and community to pursue ambitious, longer form, deeply researched and reported book projects that can advance important national conversations about social justice, education, the environment, and beyond.
Through their expert reporting, depth of understanding of a range of social issues, and moving storytelling, the work of New America Fellows addresses complex social challenges in a way only a gifted writer can.
The Program
The Selection Process
RELATED STORIES
Inspiring conversations with Emerson Collective Fellows
Clint Smith: How should we memorialize the darkest parts of our shared history?
60 MIN WATCH
Clint Smith: How to tell the truth about our nation’s legacy of slavery
56 MIN WATCH
Clint Smith: How our public spaces reflect, distort, and create our historical memory
56 MIN WATCH
Jonathan Blitzer: We need to stop oversimplifying the situation at the border
60 MIN WATCH
Andrea Elliott: ‘Invisible Child’ chronicles a young life shaped by homelessness
58 MIN WATCH
More Fellowships
Equipping remarkable social entrepreneurs with new communications tools to strengthen their voices and extend the impact of their work.
Encouraging individuals of exceptional talent and creativity to advance bold new projects in education, immigration, the environment, social justice, media, and health.
