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Roberta Capp: Humanizing Health Care
“Health care is a business, but people are not iPads,” says Roberta Capp, one of the 2016 winners of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise. “So how do you put that human aspect back into the health care business?”
Vilcek Foundation Awards $250,000 in Literature Prizes to Immigrant Authors
Literary luminary Edwidge Danticat is announced as the recipient of the 2020 Vilcek Prize for Literature. Rising stars Yaa Gyasi, Valeria Luiselli, and Jenny Xie are the recipients of Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Literature
Fernando Camargo and the scientific currency
Fernando Camargo doesn’t believe in comfort zones. “Whenever I have people starting in my lab, I tell them that they need to think of new biological questions, as opposed to just pursuing what others have started,” he says.
Rick Kinsel becomes a Visual Arts Curator
Executive Director Rick Kinsel is honored to serve as a visual arts curator for Pen and Brush, supporting the launch of the 120 year-old organization’s new programming.
Blanka Zizka: Danger, dissent, and theatre
When Blanka Zizka defected from Czechoslovakia, 21 years old and pregnant, she had no idea where she would end up—all she knew was that she would pursue her love of theatre.
Grantee Spotlight: New York African Film Festival
In honor of the United Nation’s International Decade for People of African Descent, starting this year and running through 2024, the New York African Film Festival dedicated this year’s focus to stories of “displacement, emigration, and personal journeys.”
Everyone was from Somewhere Else: An Interview with Martyna Majok
When Martyna Majok won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama last year for "Cost of Living," she quickly became known as a playwright who spotlights perspectives not often seen on American stages. But the Polish-born writer has long been telling stories about immigrants, women, the working class, and people with disabilities; to her, these stories are more than just that of marginalized voices, they are the experiences of her friends and family.
New American Filmmakers Go into the Classroom
Delegates from the New American Filmmakers program visited classrooms in Oahu to talk with young aspiring filmmakers last week.
The 2015 Vilcek Foundation Prizes Gala
Fashion and science mingled in more ways than one on April 2, 2015. Leaders in both fields gathered at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City to celebrate the winners of the 2015 Vilcek Prizes, recognizing immigrants in fashion and biomedical science.
Couples Philanthropy Honors the Achievements of Immigrants
NEW YORK - Jan T. Vilcek and his wife, Marica, fled Communist Czechoslovakia in 1964 with two...