Community Partners Event

December 2, 2021
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Veterans

“Being involved with Âé¶¹¾«Æ·ÊÓÆµ means I can be part of a movement: to open the School up to other communities, to other ways of thinking, and to help them in their mission to widen the range of people that are going into the traditional trades. …Because we need new blood, young people who have different traditions, different histories—to keep this industry going.”
– Norma Rey-Alicea

On Thursday, December 2, 2021, we gathered leaders from our network of hard working, mission-driven people and organizations who partner with our Admissions team to create career pathways that are often supported by Âé¶¹¾«Æ·ÊÓÆµ institutional scholarships.

In conversation with Rob O’Dwyer, Director of Admissions & Enrollment, each guest shared their organization’s mission and purpose, success stories of their students who have attended Âé¶¹¾«Æ·ÊÓÆµ, and lessons learned from partnering with the School.

The panelists included:

  • Sarah Cherry-Rice, Founder, Executive Director of
  • Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Associate Director of
  • Norma Rey-Alicea, Founding Director of
  • Emmett Folgert, Director of SCD Programs at
  • Rachel Dovek, Employment and Education Manager,
  • Katherine Ouellette, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor at

Âé¶¹¾«Æ·ÊÓÆµ offers nine separately accredited career training programs, and we also offer institutional scholarship support for qualified applicants. This includes a Workforce Development scholarship for residents of the City of Boston and graduates of Boston Public Schools that can cover total tuition, tools and materials, our Business Course, and MBTA passes. This and all of our scholarship offerings are made possible by our generous donors, and it complements our local efforts in recruiting students for diversity, equity, and inclusion.