In the News...Continuing the Conversation
The Goucher Prison Education Partnership seeks to stimulate awareness and meaningful dialogue about justice, incarceration, and educational access. We welcome you to learn about these issues and join us in the dialogue.
In the News...Continuing the Conversation
- August 17, 2022
WYPR's Sheilah Kast featured GPEP on her show, On the Media, in the summer of 2022. She interviewed GPEP Executive Director Eliza Cornejo and GPEP alumnus William Freeman III, a graduate of Goucher College and a current Bloomberg Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where he is an M.A. student. Listen to their discussion on the impact a Goucher College education has on returning citizens.
- May 22, 2022
In spring 2022, a group of advocates--including former GPEP students Ramieka Robinson-Peoples and Donte Small--called upon Maryland business leaders to fill the vacant positions caused by the pandemic's "Great Resignation" by hiring qualified returning citizens, thereby reducing recidivism and the too-common prejudice against the formerly incarcerated. Read their memo to the business community about becoming "Second Chance Employers".
- May 19, 2022
The Washington Post featured GPEP’s first graduation ceremony inside the prison. The event highlighted student success, Goucher’s commitment to a rigorous education for all students, and the transformational power of higher education.
- October 19, 2021
Eliza Cornejo to serve as acting executive director of the Goucher Prison Education Partnership.
- March 21, 2021
In the spring of 2021, COVID-19 vaccines were still relatively new, and conversation on who was and was not getting vaccinated was in full voice. Donalto Marshall '22, a former GPEP student, was an undergraduate at Goucher College's Towson campus at that time. Along with his professor, Donalto authored a Baltimore Sun op-ed arguing that the significantly lower vaccination rates for Black Marylanders resulted from systemic issues preventing access for Black citizens--not simply from presumed vaccine hesitancy.