Ship & Anchor Founder and CEO Devin Smith has been named Co-Chair of the Community Safety Policy Issue Committee with the Fair Budget Coalition. The role strengthens Ship & Anchor’s intersectional approach to community safety by bridging lived experience, organizational collaboration, and policy development to advance equitable public safety priorities across the District of Columbia.

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.

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