In a college dorm, in a prison, in a marriage
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Jim Kuhnhenn has spent half of his forty-year journalism career in Washington, D.C., as a newspaper bureau chief, editor, and congressional and White House correspondent. He is the 2019–2020 Press Freedom Fellow for the National Press Club Journalism Institute. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
In 2014, during the tense aftermath of the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Harrison decided the young fighters at the gym needed to get to know police officers, and vice versa. So he began offering free memberships to police in D.C. and Prince George’s County. Now officers often train with ex-cons and troubled youths at Old School.