PBS News Hour released a story highlighting one of our amazing community partners. Here’s the link to the organization on GWServes Givepulse if you’d like to learn how to serve there https://gwserves.givepulse.com/group/209492-Free-Minds-Book-Club-and-Writing-Workshop
Free Minds Book Club is an organization in DC that hosts book clubs and writing workshops for incarcerated people in prisons around DC. The organization was founded nearly two decades ago by Kelli Taylor and Tara Libert. Since its creation, the program has been shown to have great effects on members. Members of the book clubs have much lower rates of recidivism than other people who have been incarcerated.
Three of our community-engaged courses have students serving with Free Minds this semester, and there will be more courses that work with them in the spring. Be sure to check out the video made by PBS here.
