Pivot in the Media

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Recent Highlights

FOX5: Destigmatizing second chance hiring

ABC7: Incarcerated to Inventor

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

The Washington Post: Georgetown Pivot Program offers ex-inmates a fresh start

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The business schools taking teaching into prisons (new window) (Financial Times)