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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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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. -
Brenda Kenneally
2001Brenda Kenneally will illustrate through writing and photography the problematic nature of incarceration for victimless drug and drug-related crimes. -
Emily Bolton
2001Emily Bolton will expose errors and identify practical, system-wide adjustments to minimize wrongful convictions. The project works to reframe the debate over the importance of constitutional protections and advocate reform of a system that places... -
Jan Goodwin
2001Jan Goodwin will write a series of articles exploring restorative justice as a viable framework for the criminal justice system. -
Jessy Fernandez
2001Jessy Fernandez will launch the Community Education Project which seeks to educate poor communities of color about the nation's over-reliance on punishment and incarceration, and to support their participation and leadership in creating and... -
Linda Evans
2001Linda Evans will increase civic participation of former prisoners, launch a public education campaign highlighting the social, political, and economic obstacles faced by former prisoners and engage in policy advocacy on behalf of them. -
Marlee Ford
2001Marlee Ford will create a replicable, community-based, prevention-focused, holistic defender model that is effective at both reducing juvenile incarceration and increasing public safety. -
Michelle Dillard
2001Michelle Dillard will raise public awareness, develop an advocacy module and framework for the implementation of therapeutic interventions for children with incarcerated parents. -
Peter Markowitz
2001Peter Markowitz will establish an immigration defense project at a local community defender which ensures that criminal representation is sensitive to collateral immigration consequences and can serve as a model for defender organizations nation-wide. -
Presita May
2001Presita May will recruit community-based lawyers to represent people of color in custody; strengthen residents' links to state and local government decision-makers, and to increase and enhance communication between community residents and the police. -
Sara Catania
2001Sara Catania will examine, through a series of articles, why the public and politicians in California continue to support prosecution of severely mentally ill people for capital crimes in spite of the 1986 Supreme Court ruling which holds that... -
Xochitl Bervera
2001Xochitl Bervera will create and implement a comprehensive and creative legal strategy to support and further grassroots organizing efforts to end all incarceration for profit.
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