One is becoming as well-known for her autobiographical work as she is for her test for what movies meet a gender-balance baseline. Another directed one of the best-reviewed and most surreal documentaries of the past decade and has a follow-up on this year's film-festival circuit. Another has been leading the fight for gay-marriage rights since 2004 in Massachusetts. And one is investigating the subtle, complex, largely unconscious yet deeply ingrained ways that individuals racially code and categorize people, with a particular focus on associations between race and crime.
Alongside cartoonist Alison Bechdel, The Act of Killing director Joshua Oppenheimer, attorney Mary Bonauto, and social psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt, other 2014 MacArthur Award winners are using math to model the human brain or define the limits of prime numbers, or providing physical, home and job security to some of the country's most at-risk populations.
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