Category: Workforce Equity Initiative
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Ashley Williams
Ashley Williams is always eager to learn something new – and now she is on a mission. Ashley completed a few semesters of college at a four-year university after she graduated from high school with honors. Unfortunately, she had to stop taking classes due to finances. Seeing it as a temporary setback, this Austin Community…
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Cordell Wilson
When Cordell Wilson decided to study computer science as an undergraduate student in 1996, he wasn’t motivated by a passion for the industry. Instead, he thought the degree would help him land a steady job. However, after the dotcom bubble crash in the early 2000s, positions in the field weren’t as widespread as Cordell had…
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Angelique Nieves
At 24-years-old, Lake View resident Angelique Nieves came to the realization that she had spent the last several years stuck in her comfort zone. While she had earned her associate degree in networking systems administration at the same time as her high school diploma, she wasn’t quite sure how to put the degree to use…
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Vickie Custodio
Growing up in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, Vickie Custodio was instilled with a strong work ethic. “I did a lot of community activist work,” she remembers about her childhood. “My mother used to run a women’s shelter there [in Uptown], too.” So, when Vickie completed high school, she naturally carried that sense of motivation and determination…
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Jason Gary
Jason Gary was eager to learn more about careers in the up-and-coming cannabis sector, so when Olive-Harvey College launched the Basic Certificate in Cannabis Dispensary Operations last spring, he knew it was for him. Jason said he got a much better understanding of the cannabis industry, from the basics of cultivating through current laws and…