The What’s Your Anchor Initiative launches Prince George's County Correctional Center, bringing social-emotional learning and job-readiness training to incarcerated individuals. Backed by community support, this six-week program empowers participants to build personalized reentry plans. Learn how this transformative initiative is creating pathways for healing, growth, and successful reentry.

At ONE DC’s Juneteenth Festival in historic Anacostia, Dev (Devin) delivered a powerful blend of live music and mission. Performing unreleased tracks rooted in personal experience, and sharing the vision behind Ship and Anchor, Dev showed how storytelling, culture, and community strategy can drive real change in the fight to personal transform, social impact and system change.

Celebrate Juneteenth with Ship and Anchor at the 2025 ONE DC Community Festival in historic Anacostia! Enjoy a powerful live performance by CEO Devin from Letters from America's 3rd World and explore transformative initiatives like Reimagining America's 3rd World and What’s Your Anchor. Join us June 19, 11 AM–5 PM, at 2500 MLK Jr. Ave SE for a day of music, healing, and community action honoring Black liberation and resilience.

Devin Smith will be performing at the upcoming Busboys and Poets Takoma along with Big Gee Da Poet & others. Virtual options are available!

Ship & Anchor celebrates 5 years, CEO's birthday, & journey from prison journals to social impact enterprise with 2024 Anchor Awards!

Ship and Anchor partners in combatting rising gun violence in D.C. through strategic collaborations and community-based initiatives.

Film by Ship and Anchor CEO Devin D. Smith wins Best Film in Criminal Justice Reform category at 2023 International Social Change Film Fest!

Heading to the Big Screen We are proud to announce the selection of Letters from America's 3rd World into the Social Change...

Urban Arts Magazine features Ship and Anchor CEO Devin Smith to discuss his new documentary, Letters from America's 3rd World & the arts.

Program brings students from The Social Justice School to The National Theatre to perform social justice art, advocating for their views.