Open Horizon is a foundation dedicated to leveling the playing field. Through policy advocacy, educational opportunities, and support for programs that open possibilities to those who would not otherwise have them, we seek to improve lives, expand learning, and support leaders.
Open Horizon provides funding to sponsor the work of current students and recent graduates at several of our non-profit partner organizations. By creating these opportunities, we hope both to help develop the next generation of social justice advocates and non-profit leaders and to advance the mission of host organizations by providing valuable support to their current staff.
Open Horizon Criminal Justice Fellowship at the Council for Court Excellence
Open Horizon’s Criminal Justice Fellowship at the Council for Court Excellence offers a D.C. law school graduate the opportunity to work for one year with CCE on local criminal justice-focused research, policy advocacy, and educational initiatives in Washington, DC.
As a catalyst for change for almost 40 years, CCE is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that envisions a justice system in the District of Columbia that equitably serves its residents. CCE identifies and proposes solutions by convening diverse stakeholders to discuss important justice-related issues in our community, evaluating issues of law and policy and making data-driven recommendations, advocating for change to advance policy, educating the public, and increasing civic engagement.
2023 – 2024 Fellow, Morgan Grizzle, Georgetown College of Law, L’ 23
As the 2023-2024 Open Horizon Criminal Justice Fellow, Ms. Grizzle will work with justice system stakeholders to develop policy to improve the function of DC’s criminal legal system. Ms. Grizzle is a 2023 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. She was active in several of Georgetown’s student organizations, serving as the Black Law Students Association’s Recruitment and Retention Chair, the Women of Color Collective’s Programming Director, and LawCappella’s President and Social Media Chair. During law school she interned with Brady, The Bail Project, and the ACLU of DC. Ms. Grizzle holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She also holds a B.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park.
Why CCE: I chose CCE because I wanted to get involved in their criminal legal system reform work and continue to help make a difference for DC residents.
Open Horizon National Health Law Program Summer Internships
For the last 50 years, the National Health Law Program has been working with and on behalf of limited-income people, people with disabilities, and children to improve access to quality health care and enforce legal rights to health care. Through advocacy and litigation, NHeLP’s lawyers and policy experts fight for the rights of the millions of people struggling to obtain affordable, quality care, free from discrimination.
The Open Horizon internship enables talented law students to spend a summer with the National Health Law Program, learning from its legal and policy experts and gaining invaluable insight into the challenges and possibilities of public interest advocacy. Through these internships, we are developing the next generation of public interest health rights advocates and providing experiential learning opportunities while also providing valuable support to NHeLP’s staff in their important work.
“We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one…There is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”
– Amanda Gorman, reciting ‘”The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 inauguration