In the summer of 2018, Rachel (shown second to left with her fellow LEAP Facilitators) had just finished her last semester at Saint Michael’s College. She didn’t yet have a job lined up, a place to live, or a solid idea on where she even wanted to live, or what kind of job she wanted.
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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
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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
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