re: Meet Holly Zoller -- the fatty that rented the antifa Uhaul

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Robin Steinberg is the founder and CEO of The Bail Project, an unprecedented national effort to combat mass incarceration by transforming the pretrial system in the US. Over a 35-year career as a public defender, Robin represented thousands of low-income people in over-policed neighborhoods and founded three high-impact organizations: The Bronx Defenders, The Bronx Freedom Fund, and Still She Rises. Robin is a frequent commentator on criminal justice issues and has contributed opinion pieces to The New York Times, The Marshall Project, and USA Today. Her publications have appeared in leading law and policy journals, including NYU Review of Law & Social Change, Yale Law & Policy Review, and Harvard Journal of African-American Public Policy, and she has contributed book chapters to How Can You Represent Those People? (Palgrave 2013) and Decarcerating America (The New Press 2018). Robin is a Gilbert Foundation Senior Fellow of the Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law.

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Robin Gail Steinberg and David Lawrence Feige were married Saturday evening at the Bronx Borough Courthouse. Rabbi Marc Margolius officiated. Ms. Steinberg, 54, is keeping her name. She is the executive director of the Bronx Defenders, a nonprofit organization that provides free legal representation and of which Mr. Feige was the trial chief until April 2005. The bride graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received a law degree from New York University. She is the daughter of Pat Allen of Santa Monica, Calif., and the late Richard Steinberg, who lived in Manhattan. The bride’s mother retired as a human resources director in Santa Monica for Schwarzkopf & Henkel, a German maker of home care and personal care products. Mr. Feige, 45, is a writer and a consulting producer in Hollywood for “The Firm,” a dramatic television series that is to be broadcast later this year or in early 2012 on NBC. He was a creator of the television series “Raising the Bar,” which ran for two seasons on TNT.

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David Feige - Background A nationally known lecturer on trial skills and eyewitness identification issues, David is on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College, and teaches trial skills for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, the Missouri Public Defender’s office and at law schools and public defender offices around the country. David’s writings have been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and in magazines including Fortune, Slate, and The Nation. His commentaries on the criminal justice system can be heard on National Public Radio and it's New York affiliate WNYC. He is a frequent guest commentator on Court TV. A public defender for nearly 15 years, David has defended clients charged with misdemeanors, murders, and everything in between. After trying cases in Brooklyn and Manhattan, David served as the Trial Chief of The Bronx Defenders, an innovative public defender office in the South Bronx. As Trial Chief, he supervised a staff of over 30 committed public defenders, provided guidance on trial strategy, and in-house training on felony practice and trial skills. He also carried a caseload of homicides and other serious felonies and directed a broad based legal challenge to police identification procedures, including filing the first motion for a double-blind sequential lineup. In 2002 David was honored with the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s Reginald Heber Smith Award. In 2004 he was received Rider University’s Law and Justice award. In 2004 David was awarded a Soros Media Justice Fellowship. As a part of that fellowship he wrote a book titled “INDEFENSIBLE.” published by Little, Brown & Co. 3rd of 2006. David was also a Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law, and the producer and co-creator of the TNT show "Raising the Bar".

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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 are part of a larger effort within the Open Society Foundations to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal justice policies on the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the United States by challenging the overreliance on incarceration and extreme punishment, and ensuring a fair and accountable system of justice.

Fellows receive funding through the following three categories: Advocacy Fellowships The Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowships fund lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, researchers, and others with unique perspectives to undertake full-time criminal justice reform projects at the local, state, and national levels. Projects may range from litigation to public education to coalition building to grassroots mobilization to policy-driven research. Advocacy Fellowships are 18 months in duration, may be undertaken with the support of a host organization, and can begin anytime between July and November 2020.


Advocacy Fellowships come with an award of either $94,500 or $127,500 (depending on level of experience) for the 18 months. Media Fellowships The Soros Justice Media Fellowships support writers, print and broadcast journalists, artists, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices proposing to complete media projects that engage and inform, spur debate and conversation, and catalyze change on important U.S. criminal justice issues.

The Media Fellowships aim to mitigate the time, space, and market constraints that often discourage individuals from pursuing vital but marginalized, controversial, or unpopular topics in comprehensive and creative ways. Media Fellowships are 12 months in duration, and fellows are expected to make their projects their full-time work during the term of the fellowship. Projects can begin anytime between July and November 2020. Media Fellowships come with an award of either $63,000 or $85,000 (depending on level of experience) for the 12 months.

Up to three people can apply jointly for a single Media Fellowship, but joint applications carry a single award. Youth Activist Fellowships The Soros Justice Youth Activist Fellowships, in partnership with the Open Society Youth Exchange, support outstanding individuals aged 18 to 25 to take on projects of their own design that address some aspect of the U.S. criminal justice system. Projects can range from public education and training to grassroots organizing and policy advocacy to social media campaigns and other forms of creative communications. Youth Activist Fellowships must be undertaken in partnership with a host organization.

Projects can be full-time or part-time, 12 or 18 months, and can begin anytime between July and November 2020. Youth Activist Fellowships come with an award of $57,500 for full-time, 18-month projects (the award is pro-rated for part-time or 12-month projects). Eligibility Criteria All projects must, at a minimum, relate to one or more of the following U.S. criminal justice reform goals: reducing the number of people who are incarcerated or under correctional control, challenging extreme punishment, and promoting fairness and accountability in our systems of justice.

Please carefully review the complete guidelines for more details on the specific requirements for each category of fellowships. We strongly encourage applications for projects that demonstrate a clear understanding of the intersection of criminal justice issues with the particular needs of low-income communities, communities of color, immigrants, LGBTQ people, women and children, and those otherwise disproportionately affected by harsh criminal justice policies, as well as applications for projects that cut across various criminal justice fields and related sectors, such as education, health and mental health, housing, and employment.


We especially welcome applications from individuals directly affected by, or with significant direct personal experience with, the policies, practices, and systems their projects seek to address (e.g., applicants who have themselves been incarcerated, applicants who have a family member or loved one who has been incarcerated and whose fellowship project emerges from that experience, or applicants who are survivors of violence or crime).

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The Chans are still undefeated

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6/23/2020

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George Floyd's death has not only sparked nationwide protests against police brutality and racism, it's also fueled donations to charities and organizations ... especially The Bail Project. Joseph Pate -- spokesperson for the national nonprofit, which pays bail for people in need -- tells TMZ ... it has received more than $15 million from nearly 200,000 donors in the weeks since Floyd was killed by Minneapolis PD officers.

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Other sources close to the organization tell us the support -- financially and otherwise -- has been pouring in from all over the world, including people looking to do volunteer work. Several celebrities have also been chipping in big time. We're told the band, Wallows, held a fundraiser Saturday where they raised nearly $11k for The Bail Project from roughly 900 donations.

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On top of all this ... Nicki Minaj announced a portion of the proceeds from her "Trollz" collab with 6ix9ine will also be going to the org soon. Lil Baby's splitting money from his track, "The Bigger Picture," to Bail Project and a couple other causes related to the Black Lives Matter movement, as well.

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The Bail Project has paid $26 million in bail for nearly 11,000 low-income people since 2018, and $11 mil of that has already been recycled to pay new bails. We're told with the recent flooding of donations, the size of its National Revolving Bail Fund now stands at approximately $27 million, which allows it to secure freedom for thousands of people, but more importantly ... work to pass real bail reform.

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