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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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Bobby Tsow
2019Bobby Tsow will challenge Oregon’s harsh treatment of young people who come into conflict with the law. -
Bulmaro Vicente
2019Bulmaro Vicente will develop mechanisms to hold the Santa Ana (California) Police Department accountable for police misconduct and deadly use of force. -
CeCe McDonald
2019CeCe McDonald will create a curriculum for grassroots education that builds community support and power for transgender women, particularly transgender women of color. -
Christina Sorenson
2019Christina Sorenson will address the need for accessible and responsive grievance for youth in institutional placements. -
Christine Minhee
2019Christine Minhee will track opioid litigation efforts nationally and develop ways to ensure accountability in the administration of opioid settlements. -
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. -
Alexandra Smith
2008Alexandra Smith will monitor New York State prisons compliance with new legislation diverting prisoners with serious psychiatric disabilities from solitary confinement. -
Brackette Williams
2008Brackette Williams will study individuals in Arizona who spent one or more years in solitary confinement and identify how it affects their re-entry into society, family, and community. -
Caroline Cincotta
2008Federal prisons bar noncitizens from participating in rehabilitative programs, subjecting them to longer sentences and harsher conditions; Cincotta will develop legal challenges to these discriminatory policies. -
Craig Gilmore
2008Craig Gilmore will create multimedia primers on the U.S. prison system to assist activists and organizations working to challenge mass incarceration. -
Harry Levine
2008Harry Levine will research the alarming trend toward race, gender, and age bias in marijuana possession arrests. -
Janet Moore
2008Janet Moore will work to reform Ohio's current system for providing legal counsel to low-income residents. -
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton, and Erin Torneo
2008Thompson-Cannino, Cotton, and Torneo will co-write a book illuminating the problematic role of eyewitness testimony in wrongful conviction. -
Joshua Perry
2008In New Orleans, indigent defendants often face months of pretrial detention and endure harsh over-sentencing; Joshua Perry will coordinate special litigation efforts at the Orleans Public Defenders to alleviate these problems.
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Brandon Brown
2024Brandon Brown and Catherine Besteman will educate, coordinate, and interrupt the flow of people into prisons through building a robust, reparative, healing alternative to incarceration in the wake of harm. -
Catherine Besteman
2024Catherine Besteman and Brandon Brown will educate, coordinate, and interrupt the flow of people into prisons through building a robust, reparative, healing alternative to incarceration in the wake of harm. -
Claudia Muñoz-Castellano
2024Claudia Muñoz-Castellano will educate and create a Texas statewide legal empowerment program to combat the alarming rise in criminalizing policies and practices that target immigrants. -
Deborah Small
2024Deborah Small will study the impact of local efforts to “reimagine public safety,” focusing on the effectiveness of the initiatives, enhancing trust between law enforcement and the community, and addressing systemic issues. -
Elizabeth Kennedy
2024Elizabeth Kennedy will research deportees to El Salvador and Honduras, focusing on youth, Indigenous and Garifuna communities, the LGBTQI+ population, and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. -
George Morton
2024George Morton will establish an initiative that elevates the vast expanse of Black narratives and fosters the transformation of Black people as artists and art subjects. -
Gina Jackson
2024Gina Jackson and Lea Wetzel will build a national model of peer support and best practices for missing and murdered Indigenous Womxn (MMIW/G). -
Kelly Davis
2024Kelly Davis will research the needs and experiences of pregnant people who have been incarcerated, to inform and advance a broader policy agenda based on gender-based violence, reproductive justice, and criminal justice reform. -
Lauren Faraino
2024Lauren Faraino will engage in legal and storytelling advocacy to investigate, and expose, and halt the unlawful practice of harvesting organs of people who die while incarcerated without family permission. -
Laverne Thompson
2024Laverne Thompson will craft a dynamic community archive of the groundbreaking efforts of Louisiana’s advocates and visionaries who paved the way for criminal justice reform in Louisiana. -
Lea Wetzel
2024Lea Wetzel and Gina Jacksin will build a national model of peer support and best practices for missing and murdered Indigenous Womxn (MMIW/G). -
Nia Lee
2024Lee will spearhead a national series for justice-impacted Black and Brown queer women, femmes, trans, and gender-expansive individuals to create a platform for dialogue, community building, and transformative justice spaces. -
Temi Mwale
2024Temi Mwale will examine how technology produces state violence and harm through the criminalization of Black communities, with a unique focus on the parallels between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. -
Tijanna Eaton
2024Tijanna Eaton will support authors who have served time in United States prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers, with wraparound coaching and services to develop books sharing their vital stories.