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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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Daniel Karpowitz
2002Daniel Karpowitz will integrate higher education in the prisons with criminal justice advocacy. -
Elizabeth Amon
2002Elizabeth Amon will write about "Immigration Detention After September 11th" for magazines and newspapers. -
JeDonna Young
2002JeDonna Young will organize grassroots and organizations support for sentencing reform in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. -
Kamel Jacot-Bell
2002Kamel Jacot-Bell will use urban media to promote awareness around prison issuers and engage the "hip hop generation" in community organizing campaigns towards political change. -
Kemba Smith
2002Kemba Smith will work to unite youth from a variety of backgrounds to support a drug policy reform agenda. -
Michael Blain
2002Michael Blain will develop a network of prisoners, ex-prisoners, their families and communities to actively participate in criminal justice policy reform. -
Miriam Aukerman
2002Miriam Aukerman will challenge legal barriers to reentry and expand access to civil legal services for ex-offenders in West Michigan. -
Nathan Blakeslee
2002Nathan Blakeslee will write a book and related magazine articles on the drug war. -
Peter Wagner
2002Peter Wagner will quantify, publicize and reform the current practice of counting urban prisoners as rural residents for purposes of redistricting. -
Robin Mejia
2002Robin Mejia will report on problems with forensic evidence and show who they prejudice trails and lead to wrongful convictions. -
Sapna Mirchandani
2002Sapna Mirchandani will work to end juvenile executions through a campaign focused on public education, youth empowerment, and grassroots mobilization. -
Slawomir Grunberg
2002Slawomir Grunberg will complete and distribute a 52-minute documentary that draws attention to how the justice system treats the mentally handicapped. -
Tyrone Turner
2002Tyrone Turner will document the issue of transferring juvenile offenders to the adult criminal justice system. -
Brenda Kenneally
2001Brenda Kenneally will illustrate through writing and photography the problematic nature of incarceration for victimless drug and drug-related crimes. -
Emily Bolton
2001Emily Bolton will expose errors and identify practical, system-wide adjustments to minimize wrongful convictions. The project works to reframe the debate over the importance of constitutional protections and advocate reform of a system that places... -
Jan Goodwin
2001Jan Goodwin will write a series of articles exploring restorative justice as a viable framework for the criminal justice system. -
Jessy Fernandez
2001Jessy Fernandez will launch the Community Education Project which seeks to educate poor communities of color about the nation's over-reliance on punishment and incarceration, and to support their participation and leadership in creating and... -
Linda Evans
2001Linda Evans will increase civic participation of former prisoners, launch a public education campaign highlighting the social, political, and economic obstacles faced by former prisoners and engage in policy advocacy on behalf of them. -
Marlee Ford
2001Marlee Ford will create a replicable, community-based, prevention-focused, holistic defender model that is effective at both reducing juvenile incarceration and increasing public safety. -
Michelle Dillard
2001Michelle Dillard will raise public awareness, develop an advocacy module and framework for the implementation of therapeutic interventions for children with incarcerated parents. -
Peter Markowitz
2001Peter Markowitz will establish an immigration defense project at a local community defender which ensures that criminal representation is sensitive to collateral immigration consequences and can serve as a model for defender organizations nation-wide. -
Presita May
2001Presita May will recruit community-based lawyers to represent people of color in custody; strengthen residents' links to state and local government decision-makers, and to increase and enhance communication between community residents and the police. -
Sara Catania
2001Sara Catania will examine, through a series of articles, why the public and politicians in California continue to support prosecution of severely mentally ill people for capital crimes in spite of the 1986 Supreme Court ruling which holds that... -
Xochitl Bervera
2001Xochitl Bervera will create and implement a comprehensive and creative legal strategy to support and further grassroots organizing efforts to end all incarceration for profit. -
Adrian LeBlanc
2000Adrian LeBlanc will write a series of articles on the intergenerational impact of prison, characterizing the troubling ways in which the children of incarcerated parents absorb the culture of prison.
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