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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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Andrea James
2015Andrea James will create a national network of formerly incarcerated women who will raise the level of dialogue about how incarceration impacts women, their children, and their communities. -
Anne Parsons
2015Anne Parsons will write a book that explores how the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals intersected with the rise of mass incarceration. -
Chanravy Proeung
2015Chanravy Proeung will mobilize Southeast Asian communities to combat racial profiling and police brutality. -
Dorothy Johnson-Speight
2015Dorothy Johnson-Speight will mobilize women who are impacted by homicide and who seek changes to our overly punitive responses to violence and crime. -
Eddy Zheng
2015Eddy Zheng will raise awareness about the impact of criminalization and deportation on the Asian and Pacific Islander community. -
Erica Meiners
2015Judith Levine and Erica Meiners will write a series of articles that aim to deepen understanding and spur conversation about sex laws, “sex offender” management, and the people they affect. -
Galen Baughman
2015Galen Baughman will work to end the indefinite detention of young people in Virginia who are branded by the state as irredeemably dangerous “sexually violent predators.” -
Judith Levine
2015Judith Levine and Erica Meiners will write a series of articles that aim to deepen understanding and spur conversation about sex laws, “sex offender” management, and the people they affect. -
Maia Szalavitz
2015Maia Szalavitz will write a book to spur a more humane and effective drug policy by showing that addiction is a learning disorder, as opposed to simply a brain disease or criminal choice. -
Maritza Perez
2015Maritza Perez will advocate for the provision of quality educational opportunities for Latinos who are currently or formerly incarcerated. -
Marlon Peterson
2015Marlon Peterson will advocate for bold measures to end gun violence and increase community safety in New York City through the creation of zones where no one will need to carry a gun—not even the police. -
Maya Foa
2015Maya Foa will identify and implement strategies designed to prevent the misuse of medicines in lethal injection executions in the United States. -
Noran Sanford
2015Noran Sanford will work to convert closed prisons in impoverished regions of rural North Carolina into sustainable farms and educational centers that serve youth, returning veterans, and others from the surrounding regions. -
nuri nusrat
2015Advocate nuri nusrat will develop the country’s first non-punitive, pre-charge restorative diversion model for children who sexually harm other children. -
Rachel Herzing
2015Rachel Herzing will launch a project to reduce the demand for police emergency responses in Oakland by increasing residents’ capacity to resolve conflict without having to call the police.