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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. -
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.
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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.