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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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Kylee Sunderlin
2013Kylee Sunderlin will create a network of expertly trained counsel to represent mothers facing termination of parental rights based on their enrollment in methadone maintenance treatment. -
Luis Trelles
2013Luis Trelles will produce a series of print, web-based, video, and audio pieces that describe the complications and contradictions surrounding the use of the federal death penalty in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. -
Marbre Stahly-Butts
2013Marbre Stahly-Butts will organize and support those affected by drug-related evictions in New York City to protect their rights and advocate for the end of such policies. -
Maureen Barden
2013Maureen Barden will develop and implement model policies and practices to help realize the Affordable Care Act’s potential for improving the physical and behavior health of Pennsylvanians coming home from prison each year. -
Mujahid Farid
2013Using research, mobilization and advocacy, Mujahid Farid will address the plight of older people in New York State prisons and promote the use of mechanisms that would lead to their release. -
Olga Tomchin
2013Olga Tomchin will challenge the inhumane treatment of indigent transgender people in immigration detention and improve their access to quality deportation defense representation. -
Tanya Erzen
2013Tanya Erzen will write a book describing how and why the U.S. has become a faith-based prison nation, and what this means for criminal justice policy and practice. -
Tyrone Werts
2013Through workshops, community meetings, and public education, Tyrone Werts will develop the leadership of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men in addressing the problem of crime and violence in their communities. -
Amanda Alexander
2012Through direct legal services, client education, targeted litigation, and advocacy, Detroit native Amanda Alexander will work to minimize the ways an entire family suffers when a parent is incarcerated. -
Amanda Aronczyk
2012Aronczyk will produce a radio documentary and report on the financial barriers people face upon leaving prison and how this impacts families and communities. -
Ana Muniz
2012Working with a broad-based coalition in Los Angeles, scholar and activist Muniz will challenge the continued and growing use of gang injunctions. Individuals typically targeted by these policies are overwhelmingly black or Latino youth, raising... -
Angad Bhalla
2012Documentary filmmaker Bhalla will promote his film that examines the injustice of solitary confinement. The film explores the remarkable, creative journey and friendship between artist Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace, a man who has spent 40 years... -
Azadeh Zohrabi
2012Zohrabi will work to move California away from the use of long-term solitary confinement in state prisons through impact litigation, strategic communications, and public education. -
Carlos Garcia
2012Garcia, an activist and community organizer in Maricopa County, Arizona, will work to end the federal government’s collaboration with local law enforcement to detain and deport immigrants. -
Dana Wolfe
2012Through public education and advocacy, Wolfe will work to promote a reasonable and informed dialogue about sex offender management and sexual assault prevention in the state of New York. -
Francis Guzman
2012Guzman will challenge the practice of prosecuting and incarcerating children in California's adult criminal justice system and advocate for alternative sentencing and local treatment for youth charged with serious offenses. -
Hilda Chan
2012Chan will lead a grassroots campaign in San Diego County to end mandatory, unannounced, warrantless, and suspicionless home searches of people who have applied for welfare. -
James Ridgeway & Jean Casella
2012Journalists Ridgeway and Casella will document and report on the use and abuse of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, jails, and youth facilities, increasing public awareness of this pervasive but hidden practice. -
Jessica Karp
2012Karp will organize privacy, justice, and immigrants’ rights advocates against the federal government’s “Secure Communities” deportation program that is fueling record-level deportations and entangling local police in immigration enforcement. -
Joel Medina, Erin Siegal & Beth Caldwell
2012The team of Caldwell, Medina, and Siegal will produce a series of written and multimedia stories about the impact that mandatory, permanent deportations have on individuals, families, and communities. -
Jonah Engle
2012Engle, a journalist, will investigate the economic and institutional interests that profit from the War on Drugs. -
Lisa Riordan Seville & Hannah Rappleye
2012Journalists Riordan Seville and Rappleye will examine the nation's evolving probation systems, including the rising demand for supervision and efforts to cut criminal justice costs in local jurisdictions. -
Lynda Garcia
2012Garcia will challenge the selective enforcement of low-level offenses against communities of color through a campaign involving public education, advocacy, and litigation. -
Monique Morris
2012Morris will research how education related policies and practices lead to the overrepresentation of black girls in the juvenile justice system. -
Raphael Sperry
2012Architect and activist Sperry will engage professionals in the architecture and planning fields on the issue of mass incarceration, advocating for new priorities in public investment rather than increased prison and jail construction.