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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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Cindy Polo
2021Cindy Polo will work on mass communications plans designed to educate Latino voters on policy and the role of government. -
Kristine Reeves
2021Kristine Reeves will develop a public policy process model and toolkit for addressing the perpetuation of systemic oppression and exclusion through the promotion of intercultural sensitivity coaching, training, and policy evaluation. -
Laurel Paget Seekins
2021Laurel Paget Seekins will build collaborative tools for advocates and government change-makers to use to promote equitable transit services, whose necessity has been made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Lorelei Salas
2021Lorelei Salas will promote livable and sustainable working conditions and consumer participation by giving worker-centers, unions, and policymakers the tools they need to ensure people come before profits. -
Michael Tubbs
2021Michael Tubbs will work with community-based organizations and governments to launch innovative programs and policy experiments—including basic income pilots with mayors across the state to address poverty and economic mobility. -
Nic Santos
2021Nic Santos will create a burial protection guidebook and an accompanying workshop series to empower the movement for adequate and equal protection of cultural and environmental resources in Guam. -
Bob Carey
2018Bob Carey will analyze the policies and practices of the U.S. Refugee Admissions and Resettlement program and develop models for its future structure. -
Jenny R. Yang
2018Jenny R. Yang will seek to strengthen protections for the growing number of Americans in contingent work arrangements as structural changes transform the future of work. -
Jill Habig
2018Jill Habig will build the capacity of state and local prosecutors to enforce civil rights, consumer protection, and environmental laws. -
Mignon L. Clyburn
2018Mignon L. Clyburn will make the case for eliminating the predatory telephone rate regime that currently exists for inmate calling services. -
Roxanne V. Franklin
2018Roxanne V. Franklin will work to promote greater collaboration between municipal government and communities through increased civic engagement, participation and resident leadership development. -
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.