Two Fulbright alums, Dorothy Roberts and Martha Muñoz, are among the 2024 MacArthur Fellows. 

Dorothy Roberts is a professor, legal scholar, and public policy researcher at the University of Pennsylvania who investigates social and racial inequities in social service systems.  Her work aims to “reimagine better approaches to meeting human needs that are more caring and just and equitable.” She is an alum of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program to Trinidad and Tobago, hosted at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies. There, she researched HIV/AIDS Law and Policy, particularly how different views of sexuality have influenced policy.

Martha Muñoz is an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biologist at Yale University who studies the factors that influence evolution. She challenges the premise that environment is the primary driver of evolution by “showing that organisms have agency in this process.” Her research can help anticipate how different species may respond to climate change. Muñoz is an alum of the Fulbright U.S. Student Research Program to Spain, where she studied environmental conservation and biology at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid.

Roberts and Muñoz are now included in the group of 82 Fulbrighters who are MacArthur Fellows. 

Both Fulbright and the MacArthur Foundation support innovators and changemakers who work to address critical challenges facing both global and local communities.