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This year\u2019s class of \u201cGreat Immigrants, Great Americans\u201d includes Citi CEO Jane Fraser, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Hernan Diaz and Cristina Rivera Garza, and fashion designer Gabriela Hearst. The newly renamed Andrew Carnegie Foundation announced the honorees Tuesday as immigration advocates expressed concern about the future of U.S. immigration policy following last week\u2019s Supreme Court rulings.<\/p>\n

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Foundation President Dame Louise Richardson said the awards, launched in 2005, have never been meant to be political. Earlier this month, the foundation changed its name from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to emphasize its nonprofit status and connection to famed industrialist Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not articulating it in response to this moment,\u201d Richardson told The Associated Press. \u201cBut it seems especially important at this moment that we celebrate immigrants and their contributions and also that we present a view of immigrants different from the ones so often portrayed in the media.\u201d<\/p>\n

The immigration debate continues at the highest levels of power, as President Donald Trump\u2019s administration executes his agenda to increase immigration enforcement and reduce the numbers of legal immigrants and asylum seekers in the country. On the other side, Pope Leo XIV said, \u201cHuman dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border,\u201d as he visited a once-notorious epicenter of the European migration debate in Spain earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Richardson \u2014 a naturalized American citizen, born in Ireland \u2014 said the entire issue has \u201cbecome so fraught, especially with the movement against legal immigration and, in particular, the visas for highly skilled people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat just strikes me as an act of self-harm on a national level,\u201d she added, \u201cbecause so many of these people are the engines of the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

CEO Iman Abuzeid wants to inspire other immigrants <\/h3>\n

Honoree Dr. Iman Abuzeid, co-founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence-driven healthcare career platform Incredible Health, sees the award as recognition not just for her accomplishments, but for everyone who helped her along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if my story makes it feel like it\u2019s more possible for someone else, then that\u2019s probably the part that I care about the most,\u201d added the native of Sudan, who now lives in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Abuzeid said she specifically chose to emigrate to the United States after living in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and completing medical school in England.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the best country for what I\u2019m trying to do,\u201d she said. \u201cI think if you\u2019re ambitious and you\u2019re willing to work hard and you\u2019ve got some skills, it is probably the best country in the world for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being an immigrant, Abuzeid said, has given her the drive to take on risk and bet on her own abilities. It has also influenced her to build Incredible Health in a way that balances the needs of employers looking to hire health care workers with the career needs of the workers, about 20% of whom are immigrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think being from Sudan does make me a little bit more attuned to topics like bias and diversity,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause we\u2019re operating a marketplace at scale, we can see these patterns in our data where workers of certain last names were seeing bias against them. \u2026 So when we removed that, we were able to improve that part of the marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conductor Cristian M\u0103celaru sees immigration as \u2018opportunity\u2019<\/h3>\n

Honoree Cristian M\u0103celaru, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, said immigration offers both the immigrant and their new home country a chance to improve their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an opportunity we should hold dear,\u201d the native of Romania said. \u201cIt really makes for a unique kind of country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It also creates a unique artistic point of view, said M\u0103celaru, who moved to Michigan to study music at Interlochen Arts Academy when he was 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve met so many incredible people that were supportive of my arrival to the United States and embracing of who I was,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, at the same time, there is that nostalgia for what you\u2019ve left behind that accompanies you on a daily basis. \u2026 The immigrant experience never leaves you.\u201d<\/p>\n

M\u0103celaru, who conducted the Orchestre National de France during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony viewed by more than a billion people in 2024, said culture becomes stronger when it appreciates the strengths of others.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think all of us actually love the cultures of different places,\u201d said M\u0103celaru, who makes a point of diversifying the music presented by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter where we are on the planet, you end up loving music that is from a different place. You end up loving food that is from a different country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvard\u2019s Gregory Nagy \u2018awestruck\u2019 by influx of new cultures<\/h3>\n

Honoree Gregory Nagy, Harvard University\u2019s Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and a professor of Comparative Literature, takes it a step further.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo have an influx of new cultures and new ways of looking at things \u2014 that variety is the human fabric,\u201d said the native of Hungary who emigrated with his family as a boy following World War II. They first went to Canada, and then to the United States when his father was invited to become a professor of classical piano at Indiana University. \u201cI\u2019m just awestruck by how important the melting pot is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nagy, who prides himself on being \u201ca friendly Midwesterner\u201d after spending his formative years in Bloomington, Indiana, uses the Danish philosopher S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard\u2019s thoughts on repetition \u2014 how a person changes an idea even if they only repeat it \u2014 to back up that belief.<\/p>\n

But he also supports it with his ongoing teaching. Nagy\u2019s class on \u201cThe Ancient Greek Hero,\u201d which he has taught for more than 50 years and is currently the longest-running class at Harvard, continues to change with the times, while remaining true to its subject matter.<\/p>\n

He has studied how \u201cThe Oath of the Ephebes,\u201d from more than 2,400 years ago, connects the importance of environmentalism to being a good citizen. He says the ancient Greek idea of heroism is closer to modern comic book heroes than to the idealized, perfect versions many Americans hold dear.<\/p>\n

That evolution is driven by young people, as reflected in the election of P\u00e9ter Magyar as prime minister of Nagy\u2019s beloved Hungary in April, the social changes that followed, and the new perspectives brought by immigration, Nagy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very fortunate to become an immigrant,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I was lucky enough to achieve puberty in Indiana, so that Americanizes you very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP\u2019s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP\u2019s philanthropy coverage, visit https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/philanthropy.<\/p>\n

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