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Older Press Coverage
Crain’s New York: Hiring People with Criminal Convictions Pays Off
Inside Higher Ed: Congress Looks to Remove Criminal History Questions in Admissions
City Limits: CCF Grad: Justice-Involved New Yorkers Need Access to Higher Education
The Hechinger Report: Stop Holding College Transcripts Hostage
NY Daily News: The Words We Use and the Policies We Get
Black Enterprise: Bard College Makes Tuition Free for Formerly Incarcerated Students
Essence: Bard College Announces Free Tuition for Formerly Incarcerated Students
Uptown Radio: Making Education Accessible In and After Prison
Shades of Freedom Podcast: Knowledge, Power and Freedom: The Past and Future of College-In-Prison
On the Count Radio: The Prison and Criminal Justice Report ft. Vivian Nixon on Pell and the future of College in Prison
The Crime Report: The False Dichotomy of Violent vs. Non Violent Crimes
NY Daily News: The Education Prisoners Deserve - Op-Ed by Stacy Lyn Burnett
Albany Times Union: Restore TAP, because education transforms lives of people in prison
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Their Stories Helped Lift a 26-Year Ban on Pell Grants for Prisoners
BronxNet: OPEN Bx Rx Monday Interview with Maria Santangelo
New York Nonprofit Media: Leader to Leader: Vivian Nixon
The Chronicle of Philanthropy: What Biden Means for Non-Profits Focused on Racial Justice
Unerased Podcast: Navigating the Bars Beyond the Cage
City Limits: NY Must Contend With Passive Voter Suppression
Solitary Watch: In New York's State Prisons, One Night in Solitary Can Derail an Education
City Limits: Snags in Cuomo’s Bid to Restore Parolees’ Voting Rights
Queens Daily Eagle: Opinion: Invest in educational opportunities for justice-involved students
City Limits: Remember Worker Whose Past Prevents Potential - Op-Ed, Vivian Nixon
Community College Daily: Leaders in educating the incarcerated, but underfunded
Albany Times Union: Commentary: The battle for voting rights has not yet been won
NY Daily News: LTE: Restore federal and state aid for college-in-prison
Gotham Gazette: CCF Alumnae: We are Justice-Involved Women of Color; And We are 2020 College Graduates and Innovators
The Hechinger Report: Leaving Higher Ed Out of Prison - Op-Ed, Vivian Nixon & Lucy Lang
The Detroit News: UM may “ban the box",” stop asking applicants about criminal history
NY Daily News: Celebrate Whose Freedom and Independence? - Op-Ed, Vivian Nixon
Salon: Lockdown Experts the Pandemic Needs - Stacy Burnett Essay
InStyle: Coronavirus Is Making The Worst Part of Prison Even More Cruel
Bloomberg News: Colleges Behind Bars Are Adjusting to Coronavirus
The Ford Foundation: The Future Is Hers - Vivian Nixon Profile
City Limits: Turn on the Tap for Incarcerated New Yorkers - OpEd, George Chochos
Times Union: Tuition assistance for inmates will reduce recidivism - OpEd, Stacy Burnett
U.S. News: Opening the Door to College for Justice-Involved People
Syracuse.com: NY Could Save Money (and Lives) by Restoring College Aid - OpEd, Doran Larson
Gotham Gazette: Next Step for CJ Reform is to Turn on the TAP - LTE, Stacy Burnett
Columbia Spectator: Campus Movements to Ban the Box
Black Enterprise: Success Beyond Bars - Vivian Nixon
Telemundo 47: Posible cierre de Rikers Island causa controversia
NY Daily News: No New Jails v. Real Criminal Justice Reform - OpEd, Vivian Nixon
Times Union: Let’s Set an Example on Schooling Incarcerated People - OpEd, Vivian Nixon
City Limits: CCF WISH Alumna, Savanna Stokely: Congress Must Restore Access to Pell Grants
Times Union - Repeal of 1990s Policy Could Transform Prison Education in New York
Fortune: Criminal Justice Reform Advocates See Prime Opportunity in 2020 Election
THE HILL: Congress should restore Pell Grant eligibility to incarcerated individuals
Inside Higher Education: Taking Stock of Pell Grants Behind Bars
CITY LIMITS: Decarcerating NYC Starts With Building Smaller Jails
THEM: How A Women's Facility Gave This Trans Prisoner a Future
NY Fox 5: Harlem Nonprofit Helping Women Earn College Degrees
NY Times Student Journalism Institute: One Organization’s Mission to Support Women After Prison
Essence: Vivian Nixon On Helping Women With Criminal Justice Histories Earn Degrees, Achieve Their Dreams
CZI: Behind the Movement with Vivian Nixon
USA Today: Vivian Nixon and DeAnna Hoskins’ op-ed on conditions in prisons nationwide
The Hill: Vivian Nixon’s op-ed The Doublethink of the FIRST STEP Act
The Intercept: The FIRST STEP Act has sinister implications for the poor and marginalized
Albany Times-Union: Vivian Nixon’s op-ed about the importance of restoring Pell grants to incarcerated students
The Crime Report: Vivian Nixon’s op-ed about New York State legislative pushback against SUNY banning the box
NBC Think: Vivian Nixon’s op-ed about education as a key strategy for successful reentry
Vice: What Will the Future of Incarceration Look Like?
Inside Philanthropy: Who’s Helping the Formerly Incarcerated Lead the Fight for Criminal Justice Reform?
Huffington Post: Vivian Nixon’s op-ed on banning the box
New York Times: SUNY to Stop Asking Applicants About Felony Convictions
Refinery29: What Women Who are Just Getting Out of Prison Really Need
Black Enterprise: This Woman Went from Prison to Executive Leader of a Nonprofit
Splinter: The graduation you haven’t attended this year
DNAinfo: Formerly Incarcerated Women Celebrate Second Chance with College Degrees
Bustle: How This Nonprofit Director Gives Women with Criminal Convictions a Second Chance