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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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Calvin Duncan
2013Calvin Duncan will seek to vindicate the post-conviction rights of people incarcerated in Louisiana prisons by increasing their access to court records and quality representation. -
Charity Tolliver
2013Charity Tolliver will form a grassroots campaign that challenges the policies and practices that push Illinois foster youth into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. -
Ian Mance
2013Ian Mance will use powerful and newly-available statistical evidence to expose and directly challenge the systemic practice of racial profiling in several North Carolina counties. -
Jackie Sumell
2013Jackie Sumell will launch a new media campaign that exposes the widespread use and abuse of solitary confinement and supports existing advocacy campaigns. -
Joshua Gravens
2013Joshua Gravens will educate Texas policymakers, law enforcement, the legal profession, and the general public about the harms associated with placing children on sex offense registries. -
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.