The September Transition

Today, we welcome 15 Class of 2025 New America Fellows to New America. This class of Fellows includes storytellers dedicated to enhancing conversations around the most pressing issues of our time.

Please join us in welcoming the Class of 2025; watch our class video and read their bios.

This month serves as both an inflection and reflection point as we look forward to supporting the professional journey of this new cohort while also pausing to reflect on the impact made by last year’s class.

Since last September, the Class of 2024 has had a remarkable year. They published and produced work that will shape our understanding of a range of issues, including immigration, psychedelic drugs, prison reform, and more.

We have compiled a list of highlights from their fellowship year. We hope you enjoy catching up on the work from the Class of 2024!

Highlights from the Class of 2024:

• Atossa A. Abrahamian wrote about the concept of citizenship and its value for Foreign Affairs. Her book, The Hidden Globe, will be published in October 2024.
• Rozina Ali profiled three Palestinian students who were shot in Vermont for the New York Times Magazine. Ali also worked on her Fellows project, a book about the recent history of Islamophobia in the United States.
• Victor J. Blue’s film for the New Yorker, Swift Justice, was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy in the category Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary.
• Kate Daloz worked on her Fellows project, a book that expands the story of her grandmother’s 1944 death by self-induced abortion into a 300-year history of reproductive healthcare in America.
• Caitlin Dickerson wrote about migrants crossing the Darién Gap for the cover of the September issue of The Atlantic.
• Casey Gerald interviewed Eryka Badu for Dallas Magazine. He was a guest on the magazine’s Ear Burner podcast to discuss the piece and his past work.
• Olivia Goldhill wrote a number of pieces for STAT on psychology, pharma, and mental health and worked on her book about the race to create and control the legal psychedelic market.
• Malaika Jabali wrote about the history of Juneteenth for Essence and worked on her book about Black Midwesterners, which seeks to reframe dominant, misleading narratives of the working class and their crucial role in our democracy.
• Sarah Esther Maslin worked on her book about the long aftermath of the El Mozote massacre and the impact of violence, trauma, and impunity on a community and a country.
• Ben Mauk wrote about Sami reindeer herders for The Dial and worked on his book about life outside the administrative state, provisionally titled The Fugitive World.
• Laura Mauldin worked on her book Care Nation, which investigates America’s failure to provide meaningful support to disabled people and the resulting reliance on unpaid family caregivers, such as spouses.
• JoeBill Muñoz’s film, The Strike, premiered at the HotDocs Film Festival in Toronto. The film, which tells the story of a generation of California men as they endure decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launch the largest hunger strike in US history, will air on PBS in 2025.
• Sian-Pierre Regis participated in a New America event for the book The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others, in which he is featured, with author Elissa Strauss and journalist Katherine Goldstein.
• Jiayan “Jenny” Shi was selected for the Sundance Institute and The Asian American Foundation’s Fellowship and Collab Scholarship. Shi is at work on her film, Untitled Scientist Project, a documentary that explores the relationship between politics and science.
• Matthew Wolfe wrote an Op-ed in the New York Times examining “the climate missing”—the growing number of disappearances created by the effects of climate change, including disasters, migration, and conflict.