A journalist who delivered the 2016 Santagata lecture at Bowdoin has now been named a 2017 MacArthur fellow, one of twenty-four people across the globe to be honored with a so-called “genius grant.”
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, is known for her investigative work into racial injustice in the US.
On its website, the MacArthur Foundation said it chose Hannah-Jones for her work “chronicling the persistence of racial segregation in American society, particularly in education, and reshaping national conversations around education reform.”
