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MacArthur Fellow Speakers
Every year, the MacArthur Foundation selects “25 Extraordinarily Creative People Who Inspire Us All,” celebrating the creative potential of individuals through no-strings-attached fellowships. Lavin is proud to represent a diverse contingent of MacArthur “Geniuses” speakers, who are changing the world as we know it through social advocacy, journalism, science, art—and so much more.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth | Harvard Professor | MacArthur Fellow
“It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States,” says Annette Gordon-Reed, the first African-American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History and one...
2018 MacArthur Fellow | Award-Winning Painter and Sculptor
Urgent and timely, Titus Kaphar’s artworks capture the spirit of social justice and change in America today (exemplified in his TIME cover portrait of the Ferguson protests). Named a 2018 MacArthur Fe...
Founder of Street Symphony | 2018 MacArthur Fellow | TED Senior Fellow
The work of the citizen and the artist is one, says Vijay Gupta: to make sadhana—a daily practice—of the world we envision. Hailed by The New Yorker as a “visionary violinist” and “one of the most rad...
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Creator of The 1619 Project | New York Times Magazine Staff Writer | MacArthur Genius | Winner of the National Magazine Award
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of ‘The 1619 Project’ and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine who has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice...
Photographer | Associate Professor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago | MacArthur Genius
One of the nation’s most acclaimed photographers, LaToya Ruby Frazier’s work depicts the unsettling reality of today’s America: post-industrial cities riven by poverty, racism, healthcare inequality, ...
Economist and MacArthur Genius studying economic inequality
A MacArthur “Genius” and one of the top economists in the world, Raj Chetty tackles the inequality in American society—including in education, housing, and longevity—through the powerful lens of econo...
Author of Grit, the #1 New York Times Bestseller | Pioneering Researcher on Grit, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
It takes more than IQ or in-born talent to thrive at work, especially in the post-pandemic world. But why do some people get—and stay—ahead when they encounter challenging circumstances, compared to o...
As the founder and chairman of the Manchester Bidwell arts and training center, Bill Strickland inspires hope, generates jobs, and empowers citizens to become experts in any field—regardless of their ...
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and Upheaval
Jared Diamond is the epitome of a celebrity scientist—a Pulitzer Prize Winner, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and one of the world’s Top 10 Public Intellectuals (Foreign Policy). He also uniq...
