Noah Remnick, who teaches inside prison through the Justice-in-Education program, received the 2025 Champion of Change Award for his work supporting currently incarcerated people, including helping facilitate a book club in Sing Sing, at the Teaching in Prison conference at SUNY Higher Education in Prison Program (October 8th through the 10th, 2025, at Genesee Community College).

Justice in Education Scholars Program Academic Adviser Neni Panourgiá also organized a panel for the conference Lisette Hughes, Jermaine Archer, Robert Rose, and Noah Remnick joined her. The panel comprised decarcerated individuals who had been educated in prison and experts on confined education, who would collaborate to explore the nature of carceral pedagogy and lead a discussion on how to implement an abolitionist ethic in prison education.