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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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Cynthia Greenlee
2019Cynthia Greenlee will write a series of articles exploring the intersections between reproductive injustice and mass incarceration in the U.S. South. -
Devon Simmons
2019Devon Simmons will build a coalition of New York State advocates who will work to reimagine what community supervision looks like. -
Imelme Umana
2019ImeIme Umana will bring litigation challenging the constitutionality of diversion programs that use the threat of prosecution to prey on poor people accused of crimes. -
Jarrell Daniels
2019Jarrell Daniels will launch the Justice Ambassadors, a leadership development opportunity for system-impacted youth in New York City. -
Justice Rivera
2019Justice Rivera will write a book illustrating how the war on sex trafficking is a continuation of the war on drugs. -
Kris Henderson
2019Kris Henderson will develop a transformative justice training program focused on trauma and healing. -
Pamela Winn
2019Pamela Winn will create a comprehensive wellness, rehabilitation, and leadership program for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in the Southern United States. -
Richard Wallace
2019Richard Wallace will work to build social and economic equity for Black Chicagoans engaged in the informal economy. -
Sebastian Margaret
2019Sebastian Margaret will launch The Disability Project to develop movement-wide commitments to anti-ableism and to magnify the leadership, collective power, and visibility of LGBTQ disabled, deaf, and ill constituents. -
Theresa Smith
2019Theresa Smith will build a statewide network of families impacted by police violence. -
Tonja Honsey
2019Tonja Honsey will launch We Rise! Leadership Circles to create a movement of formerly incarcerated mothers in Minnesota. -
Yessica Gonzalez Rodriguez
2019Yessica Gonzalez Rodriguez will work to end the practice of holding transgender and gender nonconforming people in immigration detention centers. -
Anthony Robles
2018Anthony Robles will develop an interactive website that documents the stories of people who had fatal encounters with police in Los Angeles. -
Dominique McKinney
2018Dominique McKinney will challenge state practices which funnel vulnerable youth into the juvenile and adult justice systems. -
Donovan X. Ramsey
2018Donovan X. Ramsey will write a narrative nonfiction book that critically reevaluates the crack epidemic of the late ’80s and early ’90s, told through the stories of those who survived it. -
Gabrielle Chapman
2018Gabrielle Chapman will lead a statewide coalition to promote an antiracist policing model, educate the public about racial disparities in the state, and cultivate the next generation of racial justice leaders. -
Giselle Ariel Bleuz
2018Giselle Ariel Bleuz will build the capacity of transgender and gender nonconforming people to produce and distribute media addressing the ways the criminal justice system impacts their communities. -
Jason Hernandez
2018Jason Hernandez will develop a curriculum and toolkit for advocates, students, and family members to help them organize clemency campaigns. -
Jenni Monet
2018Jenni Monet will produce a multimedia journalism project exposing extreme gender violence against indigenous women and girls in the United States. -
Jhody Polk
2018Jhody Polk will support incarcerated law clerk programs around the country and develop a network that will mentor those seeking legal careers upon their release from prison. -
Julieta Martinelli
2018Julieta Martinelli will create a multimedia series exploring how the incarceration of undocumented immigrants affects the lives of their children. -
LaTonya Tate
2018LaTonya Tate will identify and implement effective community-based alternatives to Alabama’s outdated probation and parole practices. -
Leyla Martinez
2018Leyla Martinez will create a coalition of Latinas that can help shape public attitudes toward their experiences with the criminal justice system. -
Linda Heng
2018Linda Heng will document the experiences of Southeast Asian youth affected by deportation and the criminal justice system and help promote their leadership in the broader movement for social justice. -
MiAngel Cody
2018MiAngel Cody’s Banished project will tell the stories of Black people incarcerated under U.S. “three strikes” drug law and challenge the government to disclose information on those serving mandatory life sentences.