Program

Soros Justice Fellowships

Organization

Open Society Foundations

Opportunity Type

Fellowship

About the Program

The 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 justice system. The Fellowships Program is part of a larger effort within the Open Society Foundations’ Justice Fund to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal justice policies on the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the U.S. by challenging the overreliance on incarceration and extreme punishment, and ensuring a fair and accountable system of justice.

Application Deadline

October 21, 2020

Application Website

www.sorosjusticefellowships.submittable.com/submit

Paid?

Pay Rate

Description

Advocacy Track I:

• Advocacy Track I applicants must have at least two (2) years of relevant advocacy experience, which may include: full-time and part-time employment; paid or unpaid internships; longer-term experience as an advocate, organizer or researcher; or other pertinent experience (e.g. advocacy while incarcerated).
• Advocacy Track I aims to identify and support emerging leaders in the field of criminal justice reform. It is intended for advocates at a range of phases in their careers, including but not limited to: people just entering the field following post-graduate education; advocates with a few years of work experience; and those beginning to work on criminal justice reform issues after a career in another field or after some other life experience. Advocacy Track I applicants should have the skill, talent, tenacity, and vision needed to accomplish their project objectives; and should demonstrate the desire and capacity to become a leader in the field of criminal justice reform.
• Advocacy Track I projects need not—although they can—address one or more the specific criminal justice reform priorities identified above (see “Justice Fund Priorities” above); it is sufficient for these projects to address an issue that relates to one or more of our broad goals of reducing mass incarceration, challenging extreme punishment, and promoting system accountability (see “Our Broad Goals” above). Nor must these projects involve a promising approach or idea that is “new, risky, untested, or unconventional” (although, again, they can).

Advocacy Track II:

• Advocacy Track II applicants must have at least ten (10) years of relevant advocacy experience. 2016 ADVOCACY FELLOWSHIPS GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION 7
• Advocacy Track II is designed for seasoned, established, and accomplished leaders and experts in the field—ideally people who have truly distinguished themselves and who have shown, over the long-term, an exemplary record of achievement, as evidenced by, among other things: senior leadership positions held in organizations, campaigns, or initiatives; status as a recognized expert by others in the field; or extensive work history or work product that has helped to secure critical policy or advocacy gains. Advocacy Track II is for those applicants with the kind of stature, experience, and capacity necessary to have a meaningful impact on an important criminal justice reform issue.
• Advocacy Track II applicants must put forth projects that directly and explicitly address one or more of the Justice Fund’s specific priorities; and must involve work that represents a new, risky, untested, or unconventional but promising idea or approach. 

Open to residents of:

Open to students attending school in:

Citizenship

• Citizenship status not considered

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Organization Website

www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/soros-justice-fellowships

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