http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/29/ta-nehisi-coates-macarthur-fellow-genius-grants
Congratulations! This is actually a really interesting list including: (chronicle.com)
Patrick Awuah, 50, founder and president of Ashesi University College, in Accra, Ghana.
Kartik Chandran, 41, an associate professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University, in New York.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 39, national correspondent at The Atlantic, in Washington.
Gary Cohen, 59, co-founder and president of Health Care Without Harm, in Reston, Va.
Matthew Desmond, 35, an associate professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass.
William Dichtel, 37, an associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y.
Michelle Dorrance, 36, founder and artistic director of Dorrance Dance/New York, in New York.
Nicole Eisenman, 50, a painter in New York.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, 33, an assistant professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in Chicago.
Ben Lerner, 36, a professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Mimi Lien, 39, a set designer in New York
Lin-Manuel Miranda, 35, a playwright, composer, and performer in New York.
Dimitri Nakassis, 40, an associate professor of classics at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario.
John Novembre, 37, an associate professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, in Chicago.
Christopher Ré, 36, an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University, in Stanford, Calif.
Marina Rustow, 46, a professor of Near Eastern studies and of history at Princeton University, in Princeton, N.J.
Juan Salgado, 46, president and chief executive of the Instituto del Progreso Latino, in Chicago.
Beth Stevens, 45, an assistant professor of neurology at the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and at Harvard Medical School, in Boston.
Lorenz Studer, 49, director of the Center for Stem-Cell Biology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York.
Alex Truesdell, 59, executive director and founder of the Adaptive Design Association, in New York.
Basil Twist, 46, puppetry artist and director, in New York.
Ellen Bryant Voigt, 72, a poet in Cabot, Vt.
Heidi Williams, 34, an assistant professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass.
Peidong Yang, 44, a professor of energy and of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, in Berkeley, Calif.