Nancy Ko (BA '17) has been named a 2019 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, awarded to support her work towards a PhD in History at Columbia University. She joins the dynamic 20 year old community which includes individuals such as former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy; California Surgeon General Nadine Burke-Harris; Stanford AI leader Fei-Fei Li; Lieutenant Governor of Washington Cyrus Habib; composer Paola Prestini; computational biologist Pardis Sabeti; award-winning writer Kao Kalia Yang, and more than 600 other New American leaders. Nancy obtained her BA in History and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations from Harvard College. In her doctoral studies and beyond, Nancy intends to bring histories of Middle Eastern Jewish modernity to bear on our current understanding of race and racism.
Congratulations, Nancy! Read her biography on the PD Soros website.