Pivot in the Media

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Recent Highlights

Chronicle of Higher Education: Incarceration to Entrepreneurship

FOX5: Destigmatizing second chance hiring

ABC7: Incarcerated to Inventor

Washington Business Journal: Returning Citizens Talk About Their Journey to Sustainable Employment

Georgetown’s Pivot Program: Destigmatizing second chance hiring  (FOX5)

He invented a push-up machine while in prison for murder. Now he’s at Georgetown.  (The Guardian)

‘We Found Other Ways To Connect’: How Returning Citizens In Georgetown’s Pivot Program Thrived In The Pandemic Year  (DCist)

The “Pivot Program” a transitional program for the formerly incarcerated  (ABC7)

Students help ex-inmates start their own businesses  (The Boston Globe)

From prison to work: Former inmates learn to be entrepreneurs at Georgetown University  (ABC7)

Georgetown Program Teaches Returning Citizens To Be Entrepreneurs: ‘It Gave Me A Goal’  (DCist)

When D.C. Residents Come Home From Prison — And Go To Georgetown  (WAMU)

Pivot program propelling ‘returning citizens’ from behind bars and into the working world  (FOX5)

The business schools taking teaching into prisons  (Financial Times)