Eliza Cornejo to serve as acting executive director of the Goucher Prison Education Partnership.

In the spring of 2021, COVID-19 vaccines were still relatively new, and conversation on who was and was not getting vaccinated was in full voice. Donalto Marshall '22, a former GPEP student, was an undergraduate at Goucher College's Towson campus at that time. Along with his professor, Donalto authored a Baltimore Sun op-ed arguing that the significantly lower vaccination rates for Black Marylanders resulted from systemic issues preventing access for Black citizens--not simply from presumed vaccine hesitancy.

Through ongoing collaboration between the Smithsonian and the Goucher Prison Education Partnership (GPEP), the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has created a fund to support internships for alumnae/i and former students of GPEP. The internship offers former GPEP students the opportunity to leverage their educations, building valuable early career experience.

Former GPEP student Sekwan Merritt is the owner of Lightening Electric, a small business that provides electrical services and hires system-impacted people, giving them a life-changing chance at employment. During the pandemic, Sekwan's application for the Paycheck Protection Program was denied because of his criminal record. The ACLU took on the case with Sekwan as one of their lead plaintiffs, and in 2020 they were victorious in challenging the U.S. Small Business Administration's rule excluding formerly incarcerated businesses owners from receiving CARES Act funding.

The New York Times followed Maurice Smith '19 on his journey from inmate to Goucher graduate.