New America Fellows
The New America Fellows Program supports thinkers, creators, and storytellers whose work shapes public conversation on the defining issues of our time. Each year, we select a diverse group of writers, journalists, filmmakers, and innovators who pursue ambitious investigative projects that bridge storytelling with research and lived experience.
Through unrestricted funding, a supportive community, and increased visibility, New America Fellows bring big, bold ideas to life—through books, films, longform articles, podcasts, and other creative nonfiction narrative forms.
‘I Helped Destroy People’
Puerto Rico’s Journey After the Storm
Cecilia Aldarondo opens up about her film Landfall, and the complex politics wrapped up in Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria.
Memory, Monuments, and Breaking Up with the Confederacy
CJ Hunt talks about his film, The Neutral Ground, the reckoning taking place over Confederate monuments, and Lost Cause propaganda.
American ISIS: “I Knew the Likely End of Our Relationship Would be His Death”
Creator Trevor Aaronson talks about his podcast “American ISIS,” on one man’s winding road to radicalization.
Landfall
Cecilia Aldarondo captures Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane María, tracing its twin storms of natural disaster and economic collapse.
The Neutral Ground
CJ Hunt explores how monument removals expose the legacy of the American Civil War and America’s enduring myth of the “Lost Cause.”
