Archive for July 2025
CGA Featured in Atlanta Magazine
We’re thrilled to share this powerful feature from Atlanta Magazine spotlighting Common Good Atlanta’s work inside Georgia’s prison classrooms. The article offers a moving look at how access to college education provides more than just credits — it offers dignity, purpose, and the rarest commodity of all: hope. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE …
Read MoreBridging Campuses and Classrooms: Clemson Students Join Phillips State Prison through Common Good Atlanta
At 6:00 a.m., six Clemson University students departed South Carolina to arrive by 8:00 a.m. at Phillips State Prison—ready to dive into deep conversation and shared learning with students in the Common Good Atlanta classroom. Maddalyn Knaack, Kristie Alianiello, Sophie Roehrborn, Emily Buchholz, Maggie Stack, and Asheton Holden are part of Dr. Nancy Paxton-Wilson’s Creative…
Read MoreThe Girl Who Always Smiles – Interview by Michael Clark
I first met Janine three years ago amid COVID protocol, when CGA was hosting classes virtually. Her reputation was well known among CGA alumni for serving as a board member and for having recently become a published poet through the Poetry Foundation with her poem, “Forgotten Portraits.” It was not until several months after the…
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