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Get Paid to Learn: The Job Corps to Apprenticeship Pipeline (opens the original)
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Scott Geer has spent about 40 years in the masonry trade. He started as a tile setter, went on to terrazzo and marble, and has spent the last 15 years in brick. Along the way he taught apprenticeship programs in Seattle and Las Vegas. Today he's the brick instructor at North Texas Job Corps, where he spends his days turning "I'm not sure this is for me" into "I built that." In this episode of the iBuild America Podcast , host Damaris Casanova sits down with Scott for an honest conversation about
Skip the Debt: Why Apprenticeships Might Beat the 4-Year Degree (opens the original)
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What if the biggest barrier between a young person and a stable career isn’t talent, or drive, or even opportunity — but simply not knowing a program like this exists? In this episode of the iBuild America Podcast, host Damaris Casanova sits down with Will Houston, Center Director of the North Texas Job Corps Center in Dallas, Texas, for a conversation that goes far beyond job training. After 27 years inside Job Corps, Will has seen it all: students who walk in without a high school diploma and
Adversity, Affirmations, and Second Chances: A Job Corps Story (opens the original)
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At 18 years old, Dr. Renatta Lindsey felt like she had nothing left — no car, no plan, no idea what came next. Then a Job Corps recruiter stopped her on the street and asked one simple question that changed the entire trajectory of her life. Within a week, she was enrolled. Twenty-six years later, Dr. Lindsey is a licensed professional counselor, a compliance leader in a public health system, and living proof of what Job Corps can build. In this episode of the iBuild America Podcast, host Damari
Behind the Fences: Building Careers in Prison Workshops (opens the original)
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A music teacher and a former military corrections officer walk into the construction industry… and end up changing thousands of lives. Heather Luhn and Chris Tylutki didn't plan careers in workforce development — they fell into it. Heather left teaching during COVID and found herself running a carpentry program in Boston with zero construction background. Chris left the military and corrections world looking for "something to do" and found a mission instead. Five years later, they're both leader
From Job Corps to CEO: One Founder's Blueprint for Impact (opens the original)
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What does it actually take to bet on yourself after 25 years of betting on everyone else? In this episode of the iBuild America Podcast, host Lorraine Lane sits down with longtime friend Akil Bektemba — CEO and Founder of Vanguard Consulting Group LLC — for a conversation that's part reunion, part masterclass. Akil spent decades in the trenches of workforce development, including years with the Job Corps program, before launching his own firm built on a simple but radical idea: work with who you
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