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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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Yusef Presley
2021Yusef Presley will produce a series of short videos that seek to elevate the voices and experiences of youth directly impacted by the foster care and juvenile justice systems in Kansas. -
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
2020Aishah Shahidah Simmons will use storytelling to explore survivor-centered ways to disrupt and end childhood and adult sexual violence without relying on the criminal justice system. -
Connie Wun
2020Connie Wun will research the sex trade landscape, and in partnership with those who have participated in the trade, highlight the experiences of Black, Indigenous, women, girls, and gender nonconforming communities of color. -
Denali Wilson
2020Denali Wilson will serve youth charged in adult courts in New Mexico by litigating excessive and extreme sentences and fighting for policy change. -
Elizeth Virrueta Ortiz
2020Elizeth Virrueta Ortiz, through the Resistance Sin Fronteras project, will build the power of migrant and monolingual Spanish-speaking families impacted by police violence. -
Eric Paulk
2020Eric Paulk will build a nationwide network of Black HIV movement lawyers to protect, defend, and support people living with HIV. -
Jazmarie Melendez
2020Jazmarie Melendez will build a movement of young people who are most harmed by policing and immigration enforcement, empowering them to challenge how these intersecting systems impact their lives. -
Jeremy McQueen
2020Jeremy McQueen will develop a four-part dance film exploring systemic racism and injustices through the real-life accounts of New York City youth embroiled in the justice system. -
Julie Mao
2020Julie Mao will challenge mass migrant prosecutions and government surveillance, and work with immigrant families and organizers to tell the story of the harms such prosecutions and surveillance cause. -
June Kuoch
2020June Kuoch will use arts-based organizing to catalyze an abolitionist queer feminist orientation within the Southeast Asian antideportation movement. -
Maria Mari-Narváez
2020Maria Mari-Narváez will document and combat state violence in Puerto Rico. -
Marilyn Lee
2020Marilyn Lee will promote beekeeping as a way for formerly and currently incarcerated women and men to achieve financial security, independence, and stability. -
Phal Sok
2020Phal Sok will create an action-oriented, community-based toolkit that explains the history of immigration policy and its criminalization. -
Shanita Hubbard
2020Shanita Hubbard will develop a podcast series that explores the intersection between environmental racism and the prison industrial complex. -
Siwatu-Salama Ra
2020Siwatu-Salama Ra will draw upon the leadership of formerly incarcerated people to build bridges between and power within the environmental and climate justice movements and the prison abolition and defund police movements. -
Tamisha Walker
2020Tamisha Walker will research current and past movements for mass liberation to help inform current and future efforts to advocate for social change. -
Toya Lewis
2020Toya Lewis will help build a network of informal workers to resist and combat their criminalization and promote their collective prosperity. -
Wakumi Douglas
2020Wakumi Douglas will examine and promote cutting edge healing justice trends, and tools within the existing movement, to end mass incarceration. -
Waleisah Wilson
2020Waleisah Wilson will mobilize differently-abled people in the U.S. South who have been directly impacted by arrest, conviction, incarceration, probation, or parole. -
Xochtil Larios
2020Xochtil Larios will lead a transformational educational opportunity for youth held in Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall. -
Bobby Tsow
2019Bobby Tsow will challenge Oregon’s harsh treatment of young people who come into conflict with the law. -
Bulmaro Vicente
2019Bulmaro Vicente will develop mechanisms to hold the Santa Ana (California) Police Department accountable for police misconduct and deadly use of force. -
CeCe McDonald
2019CeCe McDonald will create a curriculum for grassroots education that builds community support and power for transgender women, particularly transgender women of color. -
Christina Sorenson
2019Christina Sorenson will address the need for accessible and responsive grievance for youth in institutional placements. -
Christine Minhee
2019Christine Minhee will track opioid litigation efforts nationally and develop ways to ensure accountability in the administration of opioid settlements.