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Open Society-U.S. will award individual grants to former senior-level government officials and staff who have played a significant role in advancing social change.
We are taking a moment to pause and analyze the future of our three U.S. based fellowship programs. This means we will not be issuing a call for proposals for 2025 fellows, as we would have done this fall.
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Ivonne Roman
2022Ivonne Roman will work to integrate evidence-based research on policing into policies and practices to help diversifying the American police workforce and improve outcomes for police departments and the communities they serve. -
Josh Wallack
2022Josh Wallack will work in partnership with states and cities to develop resources to help implement and expand effective, equitable early care and education programs. -
Laura Wood
2022Laura Wood will promote voter participation and civic engagement while combating disinformation about elections and democracy by working with cities and community-based organizations to catalyze local action. -
Michelle Maziar
2022Michelle Maziar will educate organizations, journalists, advocates, and civil society actors on available COVID-19 pandemic resources to help those excluded from local pandemic responses receive the benefits they deserve. -
Raquel Castañeda-López
2022Raquel Castañeda-López will create a holistic coaching program, the Restorative Democracy Project, to support and build the capacity of women of color in office and those transitioning out. -
Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins
2022Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins will advance community-centered projects, racial equity practices, and climate resilience principles to promote economic opportunity for all through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. -
Frances Colón
2019Frances Colón will work to catalyze policy change to counter the effects of climate gentrification on vulnerable communities of South Florida. -
Hillary Blout
2019Hillary Blout will work to provide relief to people serving excessive sentences and safely reduce the prison population through prosecutor and community engagement. -
Jane Flanagan
2019Jane Flanagan will address employers’ increasing use of exploitative employment contracts that restrain low-wage workers’ labor market mobility as well as their access to meaningful employment rights enforcement. -
Kevin Davis
2019Kevin Davis will write a book critically examining the history of federally mandated consent decrees and the extent to which they provide necessary reforms for troubled American police agencies and the communities they serve. -
Kevin Killer
2019Kevin Killer will work to bring truth, reconciliation, and healing principles to Native American communities in the United States by using collaborative partnerships with the indigenous community and its allies. -
Masum Momaya
2019Masum Momaya will explore how cultural workers and artists in museums, libraries, national parks, and other public institutions work with social movement leaders and policymakers to bring about political and policy change. -
Charles West
2017Charles West will create a guide to help local government officials develop and implement policies and programs to improve the life outcomes of boys and men of color. -
Chiraag Bains
2017Chiraag Bains will write a book addressing the need to reform policing in the United States and build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. -
Gigi B. Sohn
2017Gigi B. Sohn will use multi-platform storytelling techniques to help demonstrate how public policy can improve access to communications networks, new technology and media to communities often left behind in the digital age. -
Ralph Becker
2017Ralph Becker will create a guide for local leaders featuring solution-oriented approaches to making policy change in contrary political environments. -
Terri Gerstein
2017Terri Gerstein will develop the capacity of state and local government agencies to improve the conditions of low wage and immigrant workers through strategic enforcement of labor laws.
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Brett Rosenberg
2024Brett Rosenberg will use narrative and humor writing to increase awareness of and drive participation in foreign and national security policy. -
Emily Tulli
2024Emily Tulli will help build the capacity of organizations that aim to support immigrant workers enforce their rights under labor and employment laws without fear of retaliation. -
Eric Shaw
2024Eric Shaw will create a framework for the establishment of offices of philanthropic partnership in city governments to align and accelerate city and philanthropic investments in affordable housing, park equity, food access, and local entrepreneurship. -
Helen Gym
2024Helen Gym will develop models for narrative storytelling, while building the capacity of leaders and grassroots voices within the nation’s public school systems to elevate public education as an engine of democracy-building. -
Jahi Wise
2024Jahi Wise will identify interventions that can accelerate the mobilization of private and public capital into climate and clean technology projects, particularly in underserved and overlooked communities. -
Tariq Habash
2024Tariq Habash will develop guidelines for higher education institutions to protect academic independence and integrity, and to foster a more inclusive democracy.