Social Justice

Georgetown presents the John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award and a concert featuring Award-winning singer Chaka Khan as it continues to honor the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther…

Yamel Sarquis (G’20), born in Mexico to a Lebanese family, wants to create communication strategies to alert indigenous women and girls in Mexico to their human rights to prevent them…

The university's School of Medicine reopens its free HOYA Clinic in the city's Congress Heights neighborhood.

Actress and activist Jane Fonda talks about inspiration for fighting climate change during a talk at Georgetown.

The university’s Prison Scholars Program at the DC Jail, the only co-educational prison program in the country, has received a $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation…

After traveling to Botswana as a Davis Fellow, Mayesha Awal (C’20) is more motivated than ever to continue helping the people she met there.

History professor Adam Rothman is teaching an undergraduate course designed to examine the university’s historical connections to slavery, that connection’s legacy and efforts toward reconciliation. Students in the course have…

Leaders in athletics, education, faith communities and youth sports converged at Georgetown Nov. 6-8 for the fourth annual Sport at the Service of Humanity Conference, designed to explore the power…

Patrick Healy Scholarship recipient and varsity track athlete Josiah Laney (SFS’21) hopes to use his degree in international politics to better understand the impacts of foreign policy on low-income communities…

Acclaimed death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean sits down with Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie and Louisiana educator Cheryllyn Branche to discuss Prejean's new spiritual memoir as part of…