ScholarCHIPS

EXCITING NEWS!!! The ScholarCHIPS (For Children of Incarcerated Parents) Family is GROWING! We are elated to share that this summer we are welcoming a Summer Intern...the fabulous, dynamic, intelligent, passionate and hard-working Miss Lauren McCowan, who is a sophomore at Elon University majoring in Strategic Communications and Journalism, with a minor in Political Science.

We are ecstatic to welcome Lauren to the team and excited for her to have the opportunity apply her education, training, skills, lived experience and passion into the critical community, advocacy, and higher education access work of ScholarCHIPS! She is going to be a phenomenal edition to the team, and is coming at a great time as we celebrate 15 years of impact this year! Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Lauren!

Our ScholarCHIPS (For Children of Incarcerated Parents) scholars and alumni don't let any grass grow under their feet :) Congratulations are in order for ScholarCHIPS alum, Mick Guile and the entire Maryland Carey Law Thurgood Marshall Trial Team for winning the prestigious National Black Law Students Association Mid Atlantic Region's Constance Motley Mock Trial Regional Competition! Mick will be preparing to take the Bar Exam soon and we are sending you positive energy for the journey up ahead! Congratulations, Mick! You continue to make us so proud!

We are excited to highlight one of the ScholarCHIPS (For Children of Incarcerated Parents) OGs, Miss Amari McDuffie (2017 cohort) for co-authoring this article that was recently published in the Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work. Amari, we are so proud of you! Keep up the excellent work!

We want to give a special shout out and congratulations to our scholar, Chris Sullivan, who is a sophomore at Florida State University, majoring in Management Information Systems. He was recently awarded a scholarship and recognition from the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth at their Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas in November. We are so proud! Congratulations, Chris!

HOW ABOUT AN EXPLOSION OF CUTENESS ON YOUR TIMELINE??!!! (Permission to share 🥰)

How ADORBS is Baby Sadie with her ScholarCHIPS Teddy?! 🧸 …MELTING 🫠 Many thanks to her parents and ScholarCHIPS friends and cheerleaders, Sharaya and Sean for sharing Baby Sadie with all of us!! 🥹🥰❤️

To learn more about ScholarCHIPS, get involved and support please visit the link in the comments section or our website on our FB page :)

Some Sunshine for your timeline on this glorious Monday! …No beef here! There are early signs of Spring in the air and our Alumni Fellow, Althea and our ScholarCHIPS teddy are chillin! 😎 What should we name teddy?

Time flies when you are having fun! Friends, this year ScholarCHIPS (For Children of Incarcerated Parents) is celebrating 15 YEARS OF IMPACT and this summer we will be welcoming our 15th cohort! What started off as an observation and an idea has transformed into a beautiful, national community of incredible, intelligent, passionate children of incarcerated parents who are college students and graduates, mentors, volunteers, donors, funders, partners and cheerleaders from Washington, DC all the way to California and back again. We've come this far by faith...! We have truly beat the odds and have overcome many challenges and growing pains with resilience, courage, belief, persistence, determination, resilience, compassion and love.

Many many thanks to all of you who have ever supported or continue to support me and ScholarCHIPS! We couldn't have made 15 years of impact without you! Know that you are seen, loved, and appreciated and your seeds are harvesting marvelous results and impact. And for those of you who have been watching from afar for years...what are you waiting for? Get involved in the movement...there isn't a better or more urgent time than now! May we continue to transform lives for yet another 15 years.

We are currently looking for sponsors for our 15th Annual Awards Ceremony which will be held in July 2026. If you are interested please send us an email at [email protected].

Our NOW and NEXT generation of leaders are already formulating their skills and developing their social capital. I am so elated to share that our ScholarCHIPS (For Children of Incarcerated Parents) scholar, Cade Carman, a sophomore and Political Science major at the University of Missouri has earned a prestigious internship in the Missouri House of Representatives and he will also be living and interning in Washington, DC this summer through MIZZOU's Kinder Scholars DC Program! We are so proud of you Cade...continue soaring, rising and climbing! To learn more about the incredible community that is ScholarCHIPS please visit our website (in the comments).

EXCITING NEWS FRIENDS!!! As of February 2026, ScholarCHIPS (For Children of Incarcerated Parents) has welcomed our FIRST EVER ALUMNI FELLOW to the team, Miss Althea Guevara (2020 Cohort), one of our very own alumni and a 2024 Virginia Commonwealth University alumni! Please join us in welcoming and congratulating Althea on this huge accomplishment! Read more about her in the attached flyer. We are excited to see Althea apply her expertise, passion and creativity to this role and to this community.