The 2020 MacArthur fellows:

Isaiah Andrews, 34: econometrician, Harvard University

Tressie McMillan Cottom, 43: sociologist, writer, and public scholar, University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill

Paul Dauenhauer, 39: chemical engineer, University of Minnesota

Nels Elde, 47: evolutionary geneticist, University of Utah

Damien Fair, 44: cognitive neuroscientist, University of Minnesota Medical School

Larissa FastHorse, 49: playwright in Santa Monica, California

Catherine Coleman Flowers, 62: environmental health advocate, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice

Mary L. Gray, 51: anthropologist and media scholar, Microsoft Research

N. K. Jemisin, 48: speculative fiction writer in Brooklyn, New York

Ralph Lemon, 68: artist, Cross Performance, Inc.

Polina V. Lishko, 46: cellular and developmental biologist, University of California / Berkeley

Thomas Wilson Mitchell, 55: property law scholar, Texas A&M University School of Law

Natalia Molina, 49: American historian, University of Southern California

Fred Moten, 58: cultural theorist and poet, New York University

Cristina Rivera Garza, 56: fiction writer, University of Houston

Cécile McLorin Salvant, 31: singer and composer in Brooklyn, New York

Monika Schleier-Smith, 37: experimental physicist, Stanford University

Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, 41: biological chemist, Princeton University

Forrest Stuart, 38: sociologist, Stanford University

Nanfu Wang, 34: documentary filmmaker in Montclair, New Jersey

Jacqueline Woodson, 57: writer in Brooklyn, New York

https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows