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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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Austin Smith
2017Austin Smith will help black youth at different levels of interaction with the criminal justice system create a space to build power. -
Bella BAHHS
2017Bella BAHHS will create Sister Survivor, a group designed to support young black women organizing to mitigate the impact of the criminal justice system on their lives. -
Claudia Gonzalez
2017Claudia Gonzalez will create a program to help formerly incarcerated women in California’s Central Valley find success and healing beyond the prison’s walls. -
Damon Locks
2017Damon Locks and Sarah Ross will produce an animation and mobile media project that looks at sentencing as a critical pillar of mass incarceration. -
Derek Rankins
2017Derek Rankins will develop a space for men of color to build community. -
Destiny Harris
2017Destiny Harris will apply youth-led restorative and cultural healing to work with those who have been harmed by incarceration. -
Hannah Sassaman
2017Hannah Sassaman will work with communities most impacted by mass incarceration to limit how “predictive algorithms” using race, and factors correlated with it, affect decisions about who stays locked up and who goes home. -
James Kilgore
2017James Kilgore will lead an effort to advance more effective and less punitive policies on the use of electronic monitoring in the criminal justice system. -
Jarred Williams
2017Jarred Williams will use a novel dataset and analytical method to show how past prison closures can provide a model for future closures. -
Jasmine Babers
2017Jasmine Babers will highlight connections between the foster care system and the criminal justice system. -
Kandace Vallejo
2017Kandace Vallejo will lay the foundation for a multiracial, youth-led statewide movement to reduce incarceration, detentions, and deportations in Texas. -
Katie Rose Quandt
2017Katie Rose Quandt will publish a series of articles and data visualizations on extreme sentencing for violent offenses, with a particular focus on life without parole. -
Luis Angel Reyes-Savalza
2017Luis Angel Reyes-Savalza will create a community-led deportation defense model that involves legal representation and organizing with undocumented immigrants. -
Mark-Anthony Johnson
2017Mark-Anthony Johnson will build a statewide network of health care professionals, criminal justice organizations, and formerly incarcerated leaders to address the long-term health impacts of incarceration. -
Martina Kartman
2017Martina Kartman will support communities impacted by the criminal legal system, addressing the harms associated with interpersonal and state violence, and pushing for alternatives to punitive sentencing. -
Ola Osaze
2017Ola Osaze will build regional networks of advocates to combat the ways in which Black LGBTQ immigrants are harmed by the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems in the United States -
Rose Elizondo
2017Rose Elizondo will create alternatives to the retributive justice system using Navajo peacemaking philosophy to restore balance to communities after crime. -
Sarah Ross
2017Damon Locks and Sarah Ross will produce an animation and mobile media project that looks at sentencing as a critical pillar of mass incarceration. -
Set Hernandez Rongkilyo
2017Set Hernandez Rongkilyo will use participatory video storytelling to examine the mass criminalization of immigrants in the United States. -
Shulora Gonzales
2017Shulora Gonzales will help educate and support women who have chosen to leave sex work. -
Topeka K. Sam
2017Topeka K. Sam’s Probation and Parole Accountability Project will help educate, empower, and defend the rights of people currently on probation, parole, or federal supervised release. -
Valencia Gunder
2017Valencia Gunder will create a rapid response toolkit to advance solutions to the overlapping problems of community/inter-personal violence and police violence. -
Yanitza Cubilette
2017Yanitza Cubilette will launch an organizing effort in Connecticut addressing the needs, dreams, and demands of black and brown youth in the state. -
Alice Kim
2016Alice Kim and Joey Mogul are writing a book about the four-decade long struggle for justice for survivors of racially motivated police torture in Chicago. -
Danny Murillo
2016Danny Murillo will work to empower formerly incarcerated students by creating a network of people throughout California who have successfully made the transition from incarceration to higher education.
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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.