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Akin Omotoso
An award-winning filmmaker embraces his family’s storytelling tradition to shape powerful narratives on African identities and art during times of political transition. -
Kristina Skierka
A career in environmental advocacy has shown Power for All’s CEO that existing systems and institutions fail to address the climate crisis effectively because they are missing women’s leadership. -
Ronald Law
Following his COP28 attendance as a delegate from the Philippines, a public health leader shares the lessons he has learned about collaboratively addressing climate change as a public health threat, inspired by Filipino values. -
Robert Barsky
In April 1965, 18 renowned international law experts participated in a clandestine convening at the Bellagio Center to negotiate a treaty that would address burgeoning human rights crises worldwide. Six decades later, one scholar felt deeply connected to the negotiators during his own Bellagio residency, and decided to uncover the story.
August 2023
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Reuben Jonathan Miller
The recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship uncovers the relationship between emancipation, punishment, and social welfare in this thought-provoking piece. -
Nils Gilman and Jonathan Blake
What kind of governance systems do we need for the 21st century? Find out what Nils Gilman and Jonathan Blake think we have to govern against threats that don’t respect national borders. -
Maria Ivanova
Learn why, when individuals are empowered to have great ideas, institutions thrive and grow to reflect a just society.
December 2022
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Dr. Carlos Nobre
After speaking at COP27, during which he proposed new policy briefs to help combat deforestation in Amazonian climates, Dr. Carlos Nobre shares how his ground-breaking ideas were born in Bellagio. -
Jessica Bruder
This long-form journalist shares how the “positive disruption” of her Bellagio residency led to the completion of her award-winning book, Nomadland.
September 2022
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Dr. Urvashi Sahni
Social entrepreneur, educator, and activist, Dr. Urvashi Sahni tells us why feminist research needs to consider, and include, how men think and feel. -
Mayra Buvinic
Mayra Buvinic shares what she’s learned in 50 years as an expert on women’s issues and economic empowerment in Latin America. -
Anocha Suwichakornpong
Learn how Bellagio helped acclaimed Thai film director Anocha Suwichakornpong find the space to research her latest project: a film that deals with Thailand’s socio-political history.
May 2022
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Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga is an award-winning Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. She completed her residency at The Bellagio Center in 2016. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Africa Section), and her most recent novel, This Mournable Body (2021), partly written at the Center, was nominated for the Booker Prize. -
Saumya Roy
Saumya Roy is an author, journalist, and micro-finance entrepreneur based in Mumbai. Saumya completed her residency at The Bellagio Center in 2017. After spending nearly a decade investigating an undersung community living in a landfill in Mumbai, she used her residency to translate that fascination into a book. -
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht is an urban policy expert, and the former president and CEO of Living Cities. He first attended a Bellagio convening “Blueprint for National Prosperity” in 2007, then completed a residency at The Bellagio Center in 2016 and recently established his own LLC—Reclaiming The Dream—to advance his ideas for improving educational opportunities, strengthening civic engagement, and providing a ladder to economic security across the U.S. -
Mariana Rondón
Mariana Rondón is a director, screenwriter, producer, and visual artist from Barquisimeto, Venezuela. She completed her residency at The Bellagio Center in 2017. Her movies include the dramas Bad Hair (2013), Postcards from Leningrad (2007), and her upcoming project Zafari, which was the focus of her residency.
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Welcome to the current edition of the Bellagio Bulletin! At The Rockefeller Foundation, our mission is to make opportunity universal and sustainable. Facing crises of climate, inequality, democracy, and health, humanity has never needed institutions more. This newsletter highlights efforts to build innovative institutions that are fit for purpose in today’s world – and the […]
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