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Yale Ph.D. student Kristine Guillaume and incoming Yale Law School student Ananya Agustin Malhotra have been selected as 2024 Soros fellows. Guillaume, a Ph.D. student in Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Malhotra, who will pursue her J.D. at Yale Law School, are among 30 individuals chosen for the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a program that supports graduate study for immigrants or children of immigrants. Each fellow will receive up to $90,000 in funding to support their graduate studies at institutions across the country.

Kristine Guillaume, the daughter of Haitian and Chinese immigrants, has a background rooted in storytelling and journalism. She graduated from Harvard College in 2020 and continued her studies at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar before pursuing a Ph.D. in African American Studies and English at Yale. Guillaume's research focuses on African American literature, Black prison writing, Black feminist theory, and print culture.

Ananya Agustin Malhotra, born and raised in a bi-cultural and interfaith household in Georgia to parents from the Philippines and India, is deeply motivated by her family's history to advocate for a more just and peaceful future in U.S. foreign policy. Malhotra graduated from Princeton University and completed an M.Phil. at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Her research interests encompass global history, international law, and peace and security issues, with a particular focus on nuclear disarmament and risk reduction.

The 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows, including Guillaume and Malhotra, join a prestigious community of past recipients, such as U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who will be Yale’s 2024 Class Day speaker during Commencement weekend. The fellowship program, founded 26 years ago, has provided more than $80 million in funding to support immigrants and children of immigrants pursuing graduate studies in various fields.