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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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Abira Ashfaq
1998Abira Ashfaq will represent detained immigrants with criminal convictions in New England and to help raise awareness of the legal repercussions for immigrants with criminal convictions. -
Angela Daker
1998Angela Daker will provide legal representation and counseling for students in the low-income, high-crime neighborhood of West Town, where children confront a discouraging array of legal problems. -
Barbara Kaban
1998Barbara Kaban will represent young people in delinquency hearings, to work closely with the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services on related due process issues, and to conduct outreach to city and state agencies on educational needs of... -
Brent Pattison
1998Brent Pattison will provide legal advocacy on behalf of juvenile offenders with physical and mental disabilities and to help them avoid further contact with the juvenile justice system. -
Carole Mitnick
1998Carole Mitnick will accelerate provision of critical new treatment programs and advanced technical assistance to treat prisoners in nations of the former Soviet Union who are suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. -
Heather Barr
1998Heather Barr will raise awareness of the "criminalization" of mental illness, litigate for discharge planning for prisoners with mental illness, and advocate for access to services and housing in the community, and an end to criminalization of... -
Ingrid Eagly
1998Ingrid Eagly will provide battered women immigrants with legal representation in immigration proceedings and to conduct outreach to immigrant communities about issues of domestic violence. -
Jennifer Gonnerman
1998Jennifer Gonnerman will write a narrative portrayal of the nation's largest penal colony. -
Joe Davidson
1998Joe Davidson will examine the economic impact of mandatory minimum sentences and to report on those who have been released after being sentenced to death. -
Joe Richman
1998Joe Richman will design and produce a series of diaries recorded by teenagers in prison. -
Joseph Rodriguez
1998Joseph Rodriguez will document, through a series of photographic exhibitions, the lives of young people struggling to succeed after prison by following their family life, attempts to find work, and efforts to reintegrate into society. -
Liz Garbus
1998Liz Garbus will direct and produce a 60-minute documentary film investigating race and the juvenile justice system in Baltimore, MD. -
Michael Finley
1998Michael Finley will build upon a campaign to address the disproportionate confinement of young people of color in city and state juvenile facilities, and to help strengthen constituencies committed to changing perceptions of minority youth. -
Michael Golden
1998Michael Golden will produce a series of in-depth stories on local criminal justice issues in conjunction with community leaders, to be aired on an NBC affiliate television station in Fresno, CA. -
Richard Nizzardini
1998Richard Nizzardini will raise public awareness, provide clinical treatment, and build community coalitions to address the needs of male victims of adult rape, childhood incest, and other forms of sexual assault. -
Tammy Krause
1998Tammy Krause will establish new links between crime victims and attorneys working on behalf of the accused, in order to secure victims an opportunity for better and more meaningful participation in the criminal justice system.
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