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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. -
Alicia Amezcua
1997Alicia Amezcua will represent young people accused of crimes, to ensure they receive prompt social and educational services, and to conduct workshops on legal rights and responsibilities targeted to students, parents, and school administrators. -
Amy Hirsch
1997Amy Hirsch will explore the impact of Federal legislation that denies food stamps and government assistance to mothers and their families if the mothers have a history of felony drug convictions, even if they are now in, or have successfully... -
Andrew Block
1997Andrew Block will establish a child advocacy project, Just Children, to provide civil legal services and sentencing advocacy for low-income children in the juvenile justice system, and to teach parents effective methods for protecting their... -
Angela Browne
1997Angela Browne will write a book analyzing the lifelong effects of trauma that North American women and children face most often, such as physical and sexual violence in the home. -
Anne Kysar
1997Anne Kysar will engage in litigation to prevent the incarceration of children for non-criminal offenses. -
Barbara Fedders
1997Barbara Fedders will represent young people residing in two low-income, multi-racial Boston neighborhoods in delinquency and youthful offender proceedings, and to conduct legal workshops informing them of their rights and responsibilities. -
Christa Gannon
1997Christa Gannon will reduce recidivism among first-time offenders by providing mentoring and rights education to juvenile offenders placed on probation in Santa Clara County. -
Corinne Carey
1997Corinne Carey will represent current and recovering drug users, conduct workshops to inform them about the repercussions of new drug laws, help them resolve complex civil and criminal legal problems and organize advocates seeking more effective...
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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.