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We're The Carter Center, and we're competing in 100&Change, the MacArthur Foundation's $100 million competition to fund a single proposal aimed at solving a critical problem. Our proposal is to end "river blindness". AUA!
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I’m Jacob Soll, and I'm here to talk about fake news. I've written about its history, the history of accounting in China, Greece, elsewhere. And I’m a 2011 MacArthur Fellow (“genius grant” recipient). AMA!
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I'm Tara Zahra, a historian and UChicago professor who has put a historical perspective on immigration from Europe to the Americas — and I'm a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. AMA!
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I'm Heidi Hartmann here to talk about the Wage Gap. I'm President of the Institute of Women’s Policy Institute, an economist, and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow. AMA!
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I’m John Dabiri, engineering professor at Stanford. With my MacArthur Fellowship, me and my team helped make more efficient wind farms inspired by the way that fish swim and have launched a pilot project in Alaska. AMA!
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I’m Cecilia Muñoz. I was on President Obama's senior staff, and I'm now at New America. I’m also a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. AMA!
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We're two researchers who just put out a report on the skyrocketing number of women in jails, mostly mothers, mostly nonviolent—a 14-fold increase over the past 40 or so years. AUA!
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I'm Tarell Alvin McCraney, a playwright who launched a unique arts training program for high school students in Miami, AMA!
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