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“Drive Change” Trains Formerly Incarcerated Young Adults for the Restaurant Industry

I was on the phone with Drive Change fellow Migdalia Wilkerson when she shouted to an unseen passerby, “Hi, would you like a flyer!?”

By Rachel Baron

May 9, 2019 · 6 min read

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“Drive Change” Trains Formerly Incarcerated Young Adults for the Restaurant Industry

I was on the phone with Drive Change fellow Migdalia Wilkerson when she shouted to an unseen passerby, “Hi, would you like a flyer!?”

Rachel Baron May 9, 2019May 9, 2019 · 6 min read

I was on the phone with Drive Change fellow Migdalia Wilkerson when she shouted to an unseen passerby, “Hi, would you like a flyer!?”

At the exact moment I’d called, Wilkerson was recruiting for the organization’s next cohort, which is a group of 12 formerly incarcerated young adults that would spend eight months training…

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