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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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Kenavon Carter
2005Carter will launch a project to reduce racial profiling by law enforcement agencies in Texas. -
Kristi Couvillon
2005Couvillon, a lawyer and social worker, will conduct a multi-faceted effort to implement the American Bar Association Guidelines regarding defense representation in death penalty cases in Texas and the surrounding states. -
Michele Deitch
2005Deitch will examine several international prison oversight models, as well as the few examples of nonjudicial oversight that already exist in the U.S., with a view towards broader application (and adaptation) of these models in the U.S. -
Michelle Alexander
2005Alexander will write a book for a mainstream audience that argues that the war on drugs and mass incarceration is "The New Jim Crow." -
Norris Henderson
2005Henderson, an organizer and advocate, will launch a project to remove barriers preventing formerly incarcerated people from participating fully in the economic, social, and political life of the community. -
Shaena Fazal
2005Fazal will conduct research, litigation, and coalition building that will result in increased opportunities for long-term prisoners without compromising public safety, and reduce recidivism as well as corrections spending. -
Vivian Nixon
2005Nixon, an advocate and ordained minister, will launch a project to educate ministers and lay leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in five northeastern states about the disproportionate number of people of color in prison and the need...
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