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September 17, 2014

MacArthur Genius Grant Winners Include Joshua Oppenheimer, Ai-jen Poo 
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The John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation has announcedits list
of 21 "Genius Grant" winners for 2014. Among the grantees are filmmaker
Joshua Oppenheimer, who made the Oscar-nominated documentary, "The Act
of Killing," about U.S.-backed death squad leaders in Indonesia, and
Ai-Jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Other
winners include cartoonist Alison Bechdel, Jonathan Rapping, founder of
a program to train public defenders in the South, and Sarah Deer, a
professor and advocate for Native American women facing domestic
violence and sexual abuse. The winners will receive $625,000 to spend
however they choose.

 

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