Profile: A Life Changing LEAP
“My mom is picking up a different girl than she dropped off.” Calle arrived at LEAP in the summer of 2017, a 17 year old young woman, exhausted from a year of chemotherapy and recovering from the trauma of losing her sight to a brain tumor. That first night, Calle was startled when her […]
“I learned how to adapt to change.”
Before her time at LEAP, the only thing Nathalie knew about chickens was eating them for dinner! So how did a young blind woman from the Bronx end up processing chickens for meat on a small farm in Vermont? When Nathalie wasn’t exploring Bette Midler’s discography or working on her Fran Drescher impression, she […]
Success Builds on Success
Presses were running full steam when we met with YouthBuild alumni Matt Guilmette at Creative Labels of Vermont (CLOV), where he runs the CEI Finisher die cutter. After leading us around the press floor, describing the various machines he has worked on, we sat down to discuss his transition from YouthBuild to employment in […]
