The fellowship itself is named for Robert Masur, a 1973 graduate of Stanford Law School, who dedicated his legal career to protecting the rights of vulnerable people. Masur spent six years at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, where he litigated a number of employment and consumer law cases. In 1976, he successfully argued an employment discrimination case before the Supreme Court. He entered private practice in 1981, where he focused on consumer protection law. In 1985, his friends and family established the Robert Masur Fellowship in his memory to support the work to which he was dedicated and to encourage young people to pursue public-interest legal careers.

Chase Breaux is a rising second-year law student at The George Washington University Law School. This summer, he will serve as a legal intern with the Harris County Public Defender’s Office, where he will work alongside attorneys to represent individuals who cannot afford private counsel. Through his experience and legal education, Breaux has developed a strong commitment to using the law as a tool to challenge systemic racism and address structural inequalities. He is particularly focused on advancing institutional change while directly serving communities most impacted by injustice. Prior to law school, Breaux graduated magna cum laude from Wabash College and as a Point Foundation Flagship Scholar, Gilman Scholar, and inaugural Obama Foundation Voyager for his commitment to public service advocating for marginalized communities. Breaux is committed to a future in which equal protection under the law is not merely an ideal, but a lived reality. Following graduation, he plans to pursue a career in civil rights litigation or public defense, safeguarding the civil liberties of marginalized individuals.

Hannah Ponce is a rising 2L at UCLA Law, where she is specializing in the Public Interest Law and Policy program. After graduating from Brown University in 2022, Hannah worked as a paralegal at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles (CHIRLA), providing free legal services to Southern California’s low-income migrant communities. This summer, she will intern with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), where she will engage in ongoing litigation and policy advocacy work aimed at advancing Latino civil rights across the realms of education, employment, immigration, and access to justice. After law school, she plans to continue her immigrants’ rights advocacy through a career in impact litigation, focused on addressing the inequities in the immigration legal system.

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The Puffin Foundation and Type Media Center are the mutual sponsors of the award, which is given annually to an individual or organization who has challenged the status quo through distinctive, courageous, imaginative, and socially responsible work of significance. The Puffin Prize awards $100,000 to its recipients, with the intention of encouraging them to continue their work and to inspire others to challenge the prevailing orthodoxies they face in their careers. The prize was first established in 2001 and has since been awarded to distinguished recipients including Dolores Huerta, Heather Booth, Colin Kaepernick, and Amy Goodman.

To learn more about the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship, visit the prize page.

About Type Media Center 

Type Media Center is a non-profit home for independent journalists and truth-tellers at all stages of their careers. Our mission is to produce high-impact journalism and literary nonfiction that addresses injustice and inequality, catalyzes change, informs and uplifts social movements, while transforming and diversifying the fields of journalism and publishing.

About The Puffin Foundation

The Puffin Foundation Ltd. has sought to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy. The Foundation’s grant search provides funds to hundreds of artists annually. They also partner with numerous other organizations and institutions on special projects to bring the values of the Foundation to the public at large.

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“I’m excited to welcome this amazing group of fellows to Type, writers and reporters whose fearless coverage of issues such as immigration, criminal justice and public health is especially important at a moment when democracy and the rule of law are under assault,” said Eyal Press, director of the Type Media Center Fellowship Program.

The Fellowship Program provides emerging and established journalists the support needed to write on complex social and political issues. Our fellows form a unique community of thinkers and writers and focus on topics ranging from labor and racial justice to the environmental crisis and international affairs.

Rachael Bedard, MD is an internist, geriatrician and palliative care physician and a contributing Opinion writer at The New York Times. From 2016 to 2022, she worked with Correctional Health Services, providing medical care in New York City’s jails. There, she founded the Geriatrics and Complex Care Service, a team focused on supporting the oldest and sickest incarcerated individuals through clinical care, court advocacy, compassionate release, and discharge planning. She currently practices at Woodhull Hospital’s Safety Net Clinic, serving homeless and housing-insecure New Yorkers.

Jasper Craven is an investigative reporter covering veterans, the military, and American men for outlets including The New York Times Magazine, POLITICO Magazine, Harper’s, Mother Jones, The New Republic, The Nation, The Baffler, and New York magazine. He’s the author of the forthcoming book “God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood.” He was also the co-author of the book “Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs.”

Jasmine Garsd is an Argentine-American journalist and immigration correspondent for National Public Radio. Garsd is currently writing a musical alongside acclaimed Argentine musician Sofia Rei, based on three generations of women they both met on a reporting trip to Nebraska. She is also currently writing her first book, “When I Woke Up, The Monster Was Still There: An Immigration Story,” about the women she has interviewed during the second Trump Administration.

Tanvi Misra is an award-winning magazine writer and investigative journalist primarily covering immigration and justice issues. She was previously a 2022-23 Ida B. Wells fellow at Type Investigations. Her work has appeared in New York, The Nation, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Politico, The Baffler, Lux, The High Country News, New Republic, The Verge, Jewish Currents, Harper’s Bazaar, Bloomberg CityLab, Roll Call, Teen Vogue, NPR, and other outlets. She won the 2022 Ira A. Lipman fellowship at Columbia University and a Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Grant in 2023. In 2024, She was given the Lando “Writer of Note” award by the de Groot Foundation. 

Ryan “R.L.” Nave is a veteran journalist working in the South. He has written extensively about politics, race, equity, and criminal justice, and their intersections. He previously served as editor-in-chief of Reckon (Advance Local) and the nonprofit Mississippi Today. He has also been an editor and reporter at newspapers in Jackson, Miss., and Springfield, Ill. He has contributed to Ebony, The Source, The Root, and Serial/The New York Times. He and his teams have earned state and national journalism awards, including the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism and a national Edward R. Murrow Award. He has held fellowships at Columbia University, City University of New York, the University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern.

Katie Rose Quandt an award-winning journalist who writes about criminal justice, incarceration, and inequality. She is a contributing writer at Solitary Watch and Truthout, and has written for The Atlantic, Slate, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, The Appeal, The Nation, Vice, In These Times, and other publications. Katie Rose was a 2023 Ira A. Lipman Fellow, a 2020 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, and a 2017 Soros Justice Media Fellow.

About Type Media Center

Type Media Center is a non-profit home for independent journalists and truth-tellers at all stages of their careers. Our mission is to produce high-impact journalism and literary nonfiction that addresses injustice and inequality, catalyzes change, informs and uplifts social movements, while transforming and diversifying the fields of journalism and publishing.

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On top of providing access to primary care and other specialties, the Cutler Center also hosts events and classes to provide a space for men to make meaningful connections with each other. The Center has produced meaningful results, with members nearly 40 percent more likely to have attended a scheduled doctor’s visit in the past year. Ouyang writes:

At one point during my visit to the Cutler Center, I couldn’t help thinking, All of this just to get men to do what they should be doing anyway? But in the E.R., where I so often encounter patients after it’s already too late — in their final hour, even — the answer is plain. This month, I diagnosed a man with widespread nasopharyngeal cancer, after he quietly suffered for most of this year without letting anyone know. Not long before that, I treated a man for a major heart attack, whose medical chart until that point was completely blank. Others were carried in after an overdose or suicide attempt their families never saw coming. And more men are on their way.

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