#  Alum Nancy Ko named a 2019 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow! 

 



 **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.

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 Congratulations, Nancy! [Read her biography on the PD Soros website.](https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/nancy-ko)



 



 

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