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Pivot Fellows’ Entrepreneurship Skills Shine at Pitch Competition
Join us for a virtual Pitch Competition, where this year’s Pivot Fellows will present their startup venture ideas to a panel of judges.
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Tony McCright: Entrepreneur, Reentry Leader Opens Doors
A 2020 graduate of the Pivot Program, Tony is supporting reentry initiatives across the country and uplifting his own community.
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Amber Crowder: Destigmatizing and Humanizing Stories of Incarceration
“Ask Amber Anything” is a popular series on Amber Crowder’s TikTok account, where she has candid conversations with her over 30,000 followers. Crowder is the founder of the Been Down Project, a di
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Muhammad Al-Mahdi: Reentering the Workplace in a Tech World
When Muhammad Al-Mahdi was released from prison in 2020, he had never seen an iPhone, used Amazon, or scrolled on a Facebook feed. Now, as a Fellow with the Georgetown Pivot Program, Al-Mahdi uses rapidly developing technologies like Zoom and Microsoft applications that even the rest of the world struggles to keep up with.
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Pivot Fellows Begin Internships
The Georgetown Pivot Fellows began their internships on March 14, shifting from the classroom to the workplace as they build their professional skills. Each spring, after about five months in the
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Through Design Thinking, Pivot Fellows Reimagine DC’s Penn Social
Georgetown Pivot Fellows presented a flurry of creative ideas for revamping a downtown D.C. business, putting their new skills to the test in a real-world design thinking challenge. Over the last
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Maya Moore: Mindset, Music, and the Power of Listening
Today, Maya Moore finds herself in a Pivot Program classroom, taking classes on business, leadership, professional development, and entrepreneurship. It’s a dramatic change in circumstances from where she was just one year ago. When Moore returned home after her incarceration, she made a promise to herself: She would never go back to prison.
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Joe Houston: Entrepreneurship and Giving Back
Launching a Fitness Movement Even before joining the Pivot Program, Joe Houston was already a CEO. Houston founded WEFITDC, a fitness and wellness company, in 2020 to address underlying health
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Pivot Hires Experienced Reentry Policy Advocate as New Assistant Director of Program Management
The Georgetown Pivot Program welcomed Dr. Crystal Francis to the leadership team as Assistant Director of Program Management. Prior to joining Pivot in October, Francis worked for over fourteen years
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Georgetown Welcomes New Class of Pivot Fellows
The Georgetown University Pivot Program celebrated the launch of its fourth cohort and welcomed a new group of Fellows as they began their business and entrepreneurship training on Oct. 12. W
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