Alarcón is the host of NPR’s Spanish-language podcast Radio Ambulante and is an assistant professor in Columbia University’s School of Journalism. Other 2021 MacArthur Fellows include internet studies scholar
Safiya Noble, author of
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, and
Ibram X. Kendi, the author and historian whose Center for Antiracist Research cofounded The Boston Globe’s revamped abolitionist newspaper The Emancipator.
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