The Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals—including lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, writers, print and broadcast journalists, artists, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices—to undertake full-time projects that engage and inform, spur debate and conversation, change policy or practice, and catalyze change around the U.S. criminal legal system at the local, state, and national levels.

The Soros Justice Fellowships are part of the Open Society Foundations' broader efforts to provide a network of leaders with the resources to effectively address injustice and inequality, and the space to imagine a more just and equitable future.

The Soros Justice Fellowships will consider projects that focus on any aspect of the U.S. criminal legal system. Fellowships do not fund enrollment for degree or nondegree study at academic institutions, including dissertation research.