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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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Latisha Vincent
2022Latisha Vincent will highlight the names and tell the stories of families most impacted by parole denials. -
Lisa Maria Rhodes
2022Lisa Maria Rhodes will scale ALAS, a training program for teachers to support students facing immigration court or criminal district court, to a nationwide organization that trains high school educators across the country. -
Luci Harrell
2022Luci Harrell will work to dismantle policing programs that exacerbate the homelessness crisis in Atlanta. -
Nicole Nguyen
2022Nicole Nguyen will bring taboo conversations into the public space and inform abolitionist organizing. -
Pauline Rogers
2022Pauline Rogers will train, educate, and organize incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals and their families about the family reunification process in Mississippi and influence change to the child welfare system. -
Shakeer Rahman
2022Shakeer Rahman will work to dismantle policing programs that exacerbate the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles. -
Tiera Howleit
2022Tiera Howleit will help elevate the voices of people of color whose lives have been impacted by the criminal justice system. -
Yasmine Arrington
2022Yasmine Arrington will produce a podcast with interviews and debates with Black and brown youth voices on issues and solutions to the criminal justice system, juvenile probation, reentry, and recidivism. -
Zachary Siegel
2022Zachary Siegel will write news stories and narrative audio stories that highlight public health and harm reduction approaches to overdose deaths. -
Ashley Torres Carrasquillo
2021Ashley Torres Carrasquillo will establish a project that seeks to counter the levels of violence and poverty experienced by mainly Black, disabled, and LGBTQ+ youth in public housing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. -
Carlos Alejandro Bracamontes Norzagaray
2021Carlos Alejandro Bracamontes Norzagaray will empower members of the refugee community to become fully-accredited Department of Justice representatives and provide free representation in immigration proceedings in the Boston area. -
Cloee Cooper
2021Cloee Cooper will develop a deeply reported podcast on how communities are impacted by far-right and paramilitary-aligned sheriffs. -
Contessa Gayles
2021Contessa Gayles and Richie Reseda will create LIFE + LIFE, a documentary and visual album that explores the ways in which this country’s notion of punishment as justice perpetuates cycles of harm. -
Emily Tucker
2021Emily Tucker will educate the public about the harm caused by replacing mass incarceration with mass surveillance, and support efforts to challenge the negative impacts of mass surveillance on peoples’ lives. -
Kilroy Watkins
2021Kilroy Watkins will create an initiative to support survivors of police torture and long-term incarceration in their efforts to productively make their way into free society. -
Lam Thuy Vo
2021Lam Thuy Vo will write articles that explore the nexus between gentrification and overpolicing, each centered around characters and communities whose stories are contextualized through data-and documents-driven research. -
Leidy Perez-Davis
2021Leidy Perez-Davis will help elevate the voices of a network led by asylum seekers and support members to collectively identify the best methods to end the punitive practices and incarceration of asylum seekers. -
Lis-Marie Alvarado
2021Lis-Marie Alvarado will use arts-based organizing and cultural healing to work with unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America harmed by detention. -
May Jeong
2021May Jeong will write a book, The Life: Sex, Work and Love in America, that examines inequality in America through the prism of sex work. -
Monica Cosby
2021Monica Cosby will create a network of women impacted by the criminal legal system to help challenge the harmful narratives surrounding the dichotomy of violent and nonviolent crime in that system and in society at large. -
PJ Raval
2021PJ Raval will produce In Plain Sight, a docuseries that will reframe the immigrant experience and culture of incarceration, through an exploration of the lives of artists working to resist the migrant detention system. -
Richie Reseda
2021Richie Reseda and Contessa Gayles will create LIFE + LIFE, a documentary and visual album that explores the ways in which the notion of punishment as justice perpetuates cycles of harm. -
Tiheba Bain
2021Tiheba Bain will build a coalition of diverse women, who will use their voices and lived experiences to raise awareness of the discrimination faced by women living with violent convictions. -
Veronica Torres
2021Veronica Torres will work to vindicate the rights of the hundreds of people in Arizona prisons who have a viable claim for parole or opportunity for release. -
Willette Benford
2021Willette Benford will create the Cost of Dignity Project, which will support and elevate the leadership of Black women impacted by the criminal legal system.