APF Fellow Donna DeCesare has just released her first book Unsettled/Desasosiego: Children in a World of Gangs. Some of the original work for this book was done during Ms.
To foster, promote, sustain and improve the best traditions of American journalism, the Alicia Patterson Foundation will provide support for journalists engaged in rigorous, probing, spirited, independent and skeptical work that will benefit the public. The foundation will support journalism and will foster a community of journalists engaged in truthfully informing the public.
Alicia Patterson reluctantly became a newspaper publisher in 1940 because her new husband wanted to keep her busy and out of trouble, and because she wanted to show her father that she could be as good a journalist as he was. From that timid start she created the most successful new daily newspaper of the postwar period.
Current Fellows
 The Khmer Rouge and Cambodia: Then and Now |
 China: The Soul of a New Superpower |
 The Brain Electric – Inside the Effort to Merge the Brain with Machines |
 How Gay Marriage is Changing the Globe |
 Banking on the Seas: A Look at the New Economics and Inequities of Modern Fishing |
 Traditional Herbal Medicines and the Fight Against AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis |
 The High Costs of Speed |