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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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Yanitza Cubilette
2017Yanitza Cubilette will launch an organizing effort in Connecticut addressing the needs, dreams, and demands of black and brown youth in the state. -
Alice Kim
2016Alice Kim and Joey Mogul are writing a book about the four-decade long struggle for justice for survivors of racially motivated police torture in Chicago. -
Danny Murillo
2016Danny Murillo will work to empower formerly incarcerated students by creating a network of people throughout California who have successfully made the transition from incarceration to higher education. -
Ebony Underwood
2016Ebony Underwood will form a national coalition and create an online digital hub to advocate for and raise awareness of policies that support children of incarcerated parents. -
Eliza Hersh
2016Eliza Hersh will work to reform California’s broken sex offense registration system, and train legal advocates to bring relief to the people, families, and communities harmed by current laws. -
Issac J. Bailey
2016Issac J. Bailey will explore the issues of crime, race, punishment, and the effect of incarceration on families across generations. -
Joey Mogul
2016Alice Kim and Joey Mogul are writing a book about the four-decade long struggle for justice for survivors of racially motivated police torture in Chicago. -
Kristina Shull
2016Kristina Shull will work to dismantle the immigration detention system from the “inside” by challenging censorship practices, exposing abuses, and lifting up migrant voices in popular media and public discourse. -
Lisa Sangoi
2016Lisa Sangoi will research and write an advocacy report on the child welfare system, with a focus on how the system responds to allegations of drug use by parents. -
Mariame Kaba
2016Mariame Kaba will partner with organizations to support and advocate for women (trans and nontrans) who are survivors of sexual and physical violence but who also live under threat of arrest and incarceration. -
Nick August-Perna
2016Thomas Lennon and Nick August-Perna will complete a documentary film examining the human dimension of life after prison and the healing power of good food. -
Reyna Montoya
2016Reyna Montoya will organize people directly affected by the immigration detention system. -
Ryan Lo
2016Ryan Lo will use digital media storytelling as a way to change the narrative about people returning from prison and to help support efforts to reform the criminal justice system. -
Steven Czifra
2016Steven Czifra will help formerly incarcerated community college students reach their full academic and professional potential by creating a pathway for admission to the University of California, Berkeley. -
Teresa Hodge
2016Teresa Hodge will launch a campaign to promote tech education and opportunities for people returning from prison and to close the digital divide compounded by incarceration. -
Thomas Lennon
2016Thomas Lennon and Nick August-Perna will complete a documentary film examining the human dimension of life after prison and the healing power of good food. -
Andrea James
2015Andrea James will create a national network of formerly incarcerated women who will raise the level of dialogue about how incarceration impacts women, their children, and their communities. -
Anne Parsons
2015Anne Parsons will write a book that explores how the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals intersected with the rise of mass incarceration. -
Chanravy Proeung
2015Chanravy Proeung will mobilize Southeast Asian communities to combat racial profiling and police brutality. -
Dorothy Johnson-Speight
2015Dorothy Johnson-Speight will mobilize women who are impacted by homicide and who seek changes to our overly punitive responses to violence and crime. -
Eddy Zheng
2015Eddy Zheng will raise awareness about the impact of criminalization and deportation on the Asian and Pacific Islander community. -
Erica Meiners
2015Judith Levine and Erica Meiners will write a series of articles that aim to deepen understanding and spur conversation about sex laws, “sex offender” management, and the people they affect. -
Galen Baughman
2015Galen Baughman will work to end the indefinite detention of young people in Virginia who are branded by the state as irredeemably dangerous “sexually violent predators.” -
Judith Levine
2015Judith Levine and Erica Meiners will write a series of articles that aim to deepen understanding and spur conversation about sex laws, “sex offender” management, and the people they affect. -
Maia Szalavitz
2015Maia Szalavitz will write a book to spur a more humane and effective drug policy by showing that addiction is a learning disorder, as opposed to simply a brain disease or criminal choice.