by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Mar 24, 2022 | Community Involvement
The Prisons and Justice Initiative at Georgetown University was founded in 2016 by Marc Morjé Howard, one of my favorite professors at Georgetown (and one of my advisors on my dissertation). The Prisons and Justice Initiative (or PJI) focuses on the problem of mass...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Mar 15, 2022 | Community Involvement
There’s an often-quoted piece of proverbial wisdom that goes as follows: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” Variously attributed to the Bible, Maimonides, Lao-Tzu, or vague claims of Indian / Chinese...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Mar 8, 2022 | Community Involvement
Moving house is considered one of the major stressors of life—and some studies even suggest it is more stressful than divorce or having children! Not only does it involve intense time and money pressures surrounding the packing and transportation process, but moving...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Feb 24, 2022 | Community Involvement
More than 80% of a child’s brain is developed in the first three years of life! And research shows that one of the best ways to develop a child’s brain is to make reading and storytelling a daily part of the family’s routine. But not all families have books at home,...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Feb 17, 2022 | Community Involvement
When I was growing up, my favorite actor was Michael J. Fox. I had a big crush on him, both as the super-cool time-traveling Marty McFly from the “Back to the Future” films and as Alex P. Keaton, the young conservative obsessed with ‘80s values of wealth and power, in...
