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Sylvia Nasar
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Sylvia Nasar, John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University, will spend the spring at the Foundation writing a book on the intersecting histories of key economic thinkers in the past 150 years. She will profile great economists, from Alfred Marshall to Amartya Sen, whose work helped shift the focus of economics from the study of the limited potential for growth to the problem of poverty amid plenty.
Alexis Okeowo
The New Yorker
Visiting Journalist
Alexis Okeowo is on hiatus from The New Yorker. She will work on a book that goes beyond the black-white divide to explore the nuances and complexities of race, gender, class, immigration status, and political power in Alabama, a state that she argues has been the most prominent stage for the best and the worst results of the American experiment.
Mary Otto
Independent Journalist
Visiting Journalist
Otto is an independent journalist working on a monograph (New Press, under contract) about health care in Central Appalachia. The region faces some of the most formidable health care challenges in America. There are grave shortages of doctors, dentists, and mental health providers.
Julia Preston
Marshall Project
Visiting Journalist
Preston is a journalist for the Marshall Project. She is working on a book project entitled Here to Stay: Young Immigrants Fight for their Place in America. This is a narrative history of the movement of undocumented young people known as Dreamers and the gains they achieved for the civil rights of a generation of immigrants in the United States.