Melissa Skolnick-Noguera, a doctoral student at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication, received a Transformation Award, which includes a $15,000 grant from the Leeway Foundation in recognition of her commitment to art for social change. She was among 10 individual artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia who received a grant. 

This year’s cohort includes artists continuing five generations of healing and folklore arts, burgeoning millennials who have used their work and representation on a global level and a poet laureate.