by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Apr 12, 2022 | Community Involvement
For 40 years, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates, known as GAL, Guardians ad Litem in some US states), has advocated for a neglected or abused child’s best interests in court. Hundreds of thousands of children have found support from CASA volunteers in their...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Apr 6, 2022 | Community Involvement
Have you ever dreamed of being a hero and saving the life of someone else? It might be easier than you think! By joining the Be the Match Bone Marrow Registry, you could be that hero for someone who has a potentially fatal diagnosis like leukemia (blood cancer) or...
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,...
