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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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Khalilah Brown-Dean
2009Khalilah Brown-Dean will test voter registration and mobilization strategies in five high-incarceration communities in Connecticut. Although Connecticut reformed its felony disenfranchisement laws in 2001, confusion about voter eligibility has... -
Kristin Traicoff
2009Kristin Traicoff will engage in advocacy to challenge Louisiana's lethal injection protocol. -
Lauren Melodia
2009Lauren Melodia will work with community members in rural "prison towns" to re-think their local economies. -
Liane Rozzell
2009Liane Rozzell will build an organization of families, youth and community allies to reform Virginia's juvenile justice system. -
Nancy Mullane
2009Nancy Mullane will produce a radio documentary about men and women awaiting parole in California. -
Patrice Gaines
2009Patrice Gaines will write a series of articles exploring the impact of mass incarceration on African American communities. -
Renay Frankel
2009Renay Frankel will create an innovative partnership between criminal and civil legal services in Massachusetts to ensure more effective legal representation for low-income defendants. -
Sam Brooke
2009Sam Brooke will engage in advocacy and public education to curb arbitrary detentions and abuses at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facilities in the southeastern United States. -
Shannon Heffernan
2009Shannon Heffernan will go into prisons and communities in the Chicago area and record the sorrows and aspirations of incarcerated parents. -
Wyatt Feeler
2009Through advocacy and public education in several states, Wyatt Feeler seeks to bring a measure of fairness to the jury selection process and thereby reduce the number of death sentences. Specifically, Feeler will build upon the efforts of other...
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