Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Meet the 2024 MacArthur Fellows!

These 22 exceptionally creative individuals redefine their fields with imagination and intention. They shift how we connect to one another, through our shared history and our stories. #MacFellow

The 2024 MacArthur Fellows are:
Loka Ashwood, sociologist
Ruha Benjamin, transdisciplinary scholar and writer
Justin Vivian Bond, artist and performer
Jericho Brown, poet
Tony Cokes, media artist
Nicola Dell, computer and information scientist
Johnny Gandelsman, violinist and producer
Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker
Juan Felipe Herrera, poet, educator, and writer
Ling Ma, fiction writer
Jennifer L. Morgan, historian
Martha Muñoz, evolutionary biologist
Shailaja Paik, historian
Joseph Parker, evolutionary biologist
Ebony G. Patterson, multimedia artist
Shamel Pitts, dancer and choreographer
Wendy Red Star, visual artist
Jason Reynolds, children’s and young adult writer
Dorothy Roberts, legal scholar and public policy researcher
Keivan Stassun, science educator and astronomer
Benjamin Van Mooy, oceanographer
Alice Wong, writer, editor, and disability justice activist

Learn more about the Fellows and their work on our website:
macfound.org/programs/awards/fellows