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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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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. -
Guy Gambill
2010Gambill will advocate for alternatives to arrest and incarceration for veterans. -
Jesse Wegman
2010Wegman will write a series of articles about jailhouse lawyers. -
Laura McCargar
2010McCargar will work to stem the flow of Connecticut youth into the school-to-prison pipeline by exposing and reforming the little-known practice of counseling older students to enroll in alternative schools or to drop out of school altogether. -
Laurie Jo Reynolds
2010Reynolds will coordinate a series of educational and cultural programs to address the unintended consequences of sex offender statutes in Illinois. -
Malcolm Young
2010The economic downturn has made it even more difficult for people returning from prison to secure employment. Young's project aims to increase job opportunities for formerly incarcerated people. -
Manuel Criollo
2010Criollo will spearhead an effort to challenge policies that represent an increasingly punitive approach toward Black and Latino youth. -
Marie Claire Tran-Leung
2010Tran-Leung will use the federal Fair Housing Act to challenge discrimination in the private rental housing market against people with criminal records. -
Raj Jayadev
2010Jayadev will develop an action network within communities most targeted by the justice system to provide information, advice, and support for people entering the criminal court process. -
Renee Feltz
2010Journalist Renee Feltz (along with Soros Justice Fellow Stokely Baksh) will produce a multimedia investigative report to examine Immigration and Customs Enforcement s Operation Secure Communities. -
Ronald Chatters III
2010Chatters will advocate on behalf of the thousands of people with disabilities who leave Los Angeles jails every year. -
Stokely Baksh
2010Baksh (along with Soros Justice Fellow Renee Feltz) will produce a multimedia investigative report to examine Immigration and Customs Enforcement s "Operation Secure Communities" program. -
William Collins
2010Collins will examine and challenge how racial and ethnic minorities are purged from Louisiana capital juries. -
Zachary Norris
2010Norris will create the Justice for Families Alliance, a national effort to organize and support families of incarcerated youth. -
Brenda Kenneally
2001Brenda Kenneally will illustrate through writing and photography the problematic nature of incarceration for victimless drug and drug-related crimes. -
Emily Bolton
2001Emily Bolton will expose errors and identify practical, system-wide adjustments to minimize wrongful convictions. The project works to reframe the debate over the importance of constitutional protections and advocate reform of a system that places... -
Jan Goodwin
2001Jan Goodwin will write a series of articles exploring restorative justice as a viable framework for the criminal justice system. -
Jessy Fernandez
2001Jessy Fernandez will launch the Community Education Project which seeks to educate poor communities of color about the nation's over-reliance on punishment and incarceration, and to support their participation and leadership in creating and... -
Linda Evans
2001Linda Evans will increase civic participation of former prisoners, launch a public education campaign highlighting the social, political, and economic obstacles faced by former prisoners and engage in policy advocacy on behalf of them. -
Marlee Ford
2001Marlee Ford will create a replicable, community-based, prevention-focused, holistic defender model that is effective at both reducing juvenile incarceration and increasing public safety. -
Michelle Dillard
2001Michelle Dillard will raise public awareness, develop an advocacy module and framework for the implementation of therapeutic interventions for children with incarcerated parents.
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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.