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Open Society-U.S.’s Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to undertake projects that advance reform, spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U.S. criminal legal system.
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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Guy Gambill
2010Gambill will advocate for alternatives to arrest and incarceration for veterans. -
Jesse Wegman
2010Wegman will write a series of articles about jailhouse lawyers. -
Laura McCargar
2010McCargar will work to stem the flow of Connecticut youth into the school-to-prison pipeline by exposing and reforming the little-known practice of counseling older students to enroll in alternative schools or to drop out of school altogether. -
Laurie Jo Reynolds
2010Reynolds will coordinate a series of educational and cultural programs to address the unintended consequences of sex offender statutes in Illinois. -
Malcolm Young
2010The economic downturn has made it even more difficult for people returning from prison to secure employment. Young's project aims to increase job opportunities for formerly incarcerated people. -
Manuel Criollo
2010Criollo will spearhead an effort to challenge policies that represent an increasingly punitive approach toward Black and Latino youth. -
Marie Claire Tran-Leung
2010Tran-Leung will use the federal Fair Housing Act to challenge discrimination in the private rental housing market against people with criminal records. -
Raj Jayadev
2010Jayadev will develop an action network within communities most targeted by the justice system to provide information, advice, and support for people entering the criminal court process. -
Renee Feltz
2010Journalist Renee Feltz (along with Soros Justice Fellow Stokely Baksh) will produce a multimedia investigative report to examine Immigration and Customs Enforcement s Operation Secure Communities. -
Ronald Chatters III
2010Chatters will advocate on behalf of the thousands of people with disabilities who leave Los Angeles jails every year. -
Stokely Baksh
2010Baksh (along with Soros Justice Fellow Renee Feltz) will produce a multimedia investigative report to examine Immigration and Customs Enforcement s "Operation Secure Communities" program. -
William Collins
2010Collins will examine and challenge how racial and ethnic minorities are purged from Louisiana capital juries. -
Zachary Norris
2010Norris will create the Justice for Families Alliance, a national effort to organize and support families of incarcerated youth. -
Amalia Greenberg Delgado
2009Greenberg Delgado will develop a public education program to counter myths about immigrants and crime, advocate for improved law-enforcement practices in immigrant communities, and work to preserve the rights of people affected by these abuses in... -
Anita Khandelwal
2009Through research and advocacy, Anita Khandelwal will challenge the Seattle Police Department's reliance on this dubious application of local trespass laws, and provide a model for challenging these practices nationally. -
Carrie Ann Shirota
2009Carrie Ann Shirota will work to mitigate and reduce the transfer of incarcerated Hawaiians to mainland prisons thousands of miles away. -
Catherine McKee
2009Catherine McKee will work with community organizations to improve access to federally assisted housing for formerly incarcerated people. McKee aims to develop a statewide reentry council in California focused on the issue of housing for those... -
Clemmie Greenlee
2009Greenlee will train current and former gang members in Nashville to advocate for criminal justice reform. She will engage youth who are working to transform their lives and change the system that contributed to their involvement in gangs and gang... -
Jessica Pupovac
2009Jessica Pupovac will explore the emerging crisis involving the skyrocketing number of incarcerated people over the age of 50. -
Katheryn Russell-Brown
2009Katheryn Russell-Brown will develop books on criminal justice issues that will help young people understand the court system, corrections, and the police. Her literature will encourage young people to think critically about perceptions of race,... -
Khalilah Brown-Dean
2009Khalilah Brown-Dean will test voter registration and mobilization strategies in five high-incarceration communities in Connecticut. Although Connecticut reformed its felony disenfranchisement laws in 2001, confusion about voter eligibility has... -
Kristin Traicoff
2009Kristin Traicoff will engage in advocacy to challenge Louisiana's lethal injection protocol. -
Lauren Melodia
2009Lauren Melodia will work with community members in rural "prison towns" to re-think their local economies. -
Liane Rozzell
2009Liane Rozzell will build an organization of families, youth and community allies to reform Virginia's juvenile justice system. -
Nancy Mullane
2009Nancy Mullane will produce a radio documentary about men and women awaiting parole in California.
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