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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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Rebecca Richman Cohen
2012By examining the ongoing debate in Montana around medical marijuana, documentary filmmaker Richman Cohen’s film aims to ignite public discussion about how states can shift the country away from the failed War on Drugs. -
Tracy Huling
2012Huling will help policymakers, advocates and community leaders identify, document and implement effective ways to close state prisons in rural America. She will focus on best practices in the closure of prisons in rural areas, alternatives to... -
Benay Rubenstein
2011Rubenstein will mobilize educators, advocates, researchers, and students to reform the State University of New York's admissions policies that impose significant barriers to higher education for people with criminal records. -
Chandra Thomas
2011Journalist Thomas will examine the ways that some Georgia schools divert at-risk children into the state s 200-plus alternative schools, priming them for the criminal justice system. -
Eugene Jarecki
2011Documentary filmmaker and author Jarecki will complete and promote a film about America s failed war on drugs. -
Gail Tyree
2011Tyree will help create a network of organizations and individuals in the southeast U.S. who can respond quickly and effectively to stop for-profit prisons, jails, or detention centers from moving into their communities. -
Grey Torrico
2011Torrico will lead a grassroots campaign to resist the joint efforts of local law enforcement and the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to arrest, detain, and deport immigrants in Collier County, Florida, a part of the country that... -
Hamid Khan
2011In collaboration with a diverse cross-section of individuals and groups, Khan will challenge Los Angeles Police Department surveillance and profiling practices that criminalize benign and legal activity, normalize racial profiling, and render... -
Jacinta Gonzalez Goodman
2011Gonzalez will work with day laborers, women, youth, immigrant families, and others to challenge unfair targeting by the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems. -
John Thompson
2011Thompson, whose wrongful conviction was at issue in the sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court decision in Connick v. Thompson, will create a public education and advocacy campaign to demand accountability for prosecutorial misconduct. -
Lena Graber
2011Graber will work to reduce the government s abuse of immigration detainers a tool used to maintain custody of potentially deportable individuals in local jails or prisons nationwide. -
Mary Heinen
2011Heinen will organize, educate, and support people returning from Michigan correction facilities so that they can advocate for themselves and determine their own needs. -
Michelle Tyon
2011Longtime South Dakota activist Tyon will launch a community dialog and education initiative among the 48,000 Oglala Lakota people to address crime, violence, and public safety in Native communities by positive means instead of over policing and... -
Nicole Pittman
2011Through public education and advocacy, Pittman will raise awareness around the practicality, constitutionality, and wisdom of including children in our country s sex offense registration and notification systems. -
Petra Bartosiewicz
2011Bartosiewicz will write a book exploring how domestic prosecutions in the war on terror have transformed the U.S. justice system, making it less just and an institutionalized threat to the liberties of all Americans. -
Richard Rivera
2011Former New Jersey police officer Rivera will conduct research and training that focuses on citizen complaints and use-of-force data in New Jersey, as the first step in a larger effort to make the state s internal affairs system a national model of... -
Sara Zier
2011Zier seeks to stem the flow of incarcerating youth with mental illnesses in Washington State by facilitating their access to much-needed community-based mental health care services. -
Sonia Kumar
2011Kumar will challenge policies and practices that contribute to the needless detention of girls in Maryland s juvenile justice system and will work to ensure that statewide systems reform include girls perspectives, needs, and voices. -
Tarsha Jackson
2011Jackson will spearhead an effort to ensure that directly affected youth and their families play a meaningful role in the efforts to reform policies around youth confinement in the Houston jail system. -
Wesley Ware
2011Ware will work with LGBTQ youth in New Orleans in a grassroots effort to reform practices regarding the policing, arrest, and incarceration of LGBTQ youth in Louisiana. -
Alexandra Cox
2010Cox will develop and implement research and protocols for improving relationships between youth and staff in juvenile facilities. -
Alison McCrary
2010McCrary will challenge law enforcement practices that criminalize New Orleans Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs and Mardi Gras Indian tribes. -
Amanda J. Crawford
2010Crawford will pursue a series of magazine articles that explores the consequences of the drug war. -
Dwayne Betts
2010Betts will write a book about the ways that crime and mass incarceration affect the families of both victims and incarcerated, social workers, teachers, and others who will never see the inside of a jail cell. -
Flozelle Woodmore
2010Woodmore will organize friends and family members of people serving life sentences to advocate for change in the parole system.