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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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Alexandra Cox
2010Cox will develop and implement research and protocols for improving relationships between youth and staff in juvenile facilities. -
Alison McCrary
2010McCrary will challenge law enforcement practices that criminalize New Orleans Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs and Mardi Gras Indian tribes. -
Amanda J. Crawford
2010Crawford will pursue a series of magazine articles that explores the consequences of the drug war. -
Dwayne Betts
2010Betts will write a book about the ways that crime and mass incarceration affect the families of both victims and incarcerated, social workers, teachers, and others who will never see the inside of a jail cell. -
Flozelle Woodmore
2010Woodmore will organize friends and family members of people serving life sentences to advocate for change in the parole system. -
Guy Gambill
2010Gambill will advocate for alternatives to arrest and incarceration for veterans. -
Jesse Wegman
2010Wegman will write a series of articles about jailhouse lawyers. -
Laura McCargar
2010McCargar will work to stem the flow of Connecticut youth into the school-to-prison pipeline by exposing and reforming the little-known practice of counseling older students to enroll in alternative schools or to drop out of school altogether. -
Laurie Jo Reynolds
2010Reynolds will coordinate a series of educational and cultural programs to address the unintended consequences of sex offender statutes in Illinois. -
Malcolm Young
2010The economic downturn has made it even more difficult for people returning from prison to secure employment. Young's project aims to increase job opportunities for formerly incarcerated people. -
Manuel Criollo
2010Criollo will spearhead an effort to challenge policies that represent an increasingly punitive approach toward Black and Latino youth. -
Marie Claire Tran-Leung
2010Tran-Leung will use the federal Fair Housing Act to challenge discrimination in the private rental housing market against people with criminal records. -
Raj Jayadev
2010Jayadev will develop an action network within communities most targeted by the justice system to provide information, advice, and support for people entering the criminal court process. -
Renee Feltz
2010Journalist Renee Feltz (along with Soros Justice Fellow Stokely Baksh) will produce a multimedia investigative report to examine Immigration and Customs Enforcement s Operation Secure Communities. -
Ronald Chatters III
2010Chatters will advocate on behalf of the thousands of people with disabilities who leave Los Angeles jails every year. -
Stokely Baksh
2010Baksh (along with Soros Justice Fellow Renee Feltz) will produce a multimedia investigative report to examine Immigration and Customs Enforcement s "Operation Secure Communities" program. -
William Collins
2010Collins will examine and challenge how racial and ethnic minorities are purged from Louisiana capital juries. -
Zachary Norris
2010Norris will create the Justice for Families Alliance, a national effort to organize and support families of incarcerated youth.