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Own It: Starting a Business after Prison

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Joyce Klein: Entrepreneurship as a re-entry strategy primer

Jun 14, 2018

Joyce Klein is the director of FIELD at the Aspen Institute, which advances microenterprise business ownership as an economic opportunity strategy. In 2016 she published a paper called Prison to Proprietor: Entrepreneurship as a Re-Entry Strategy:

Tamra Thetford: Credit building on the path to entrepreneurship

Jun 7, 2018

Tamra Thetford is the Chief Program Officer at Justine Petersen, a St Louis-based nonprofit that helps people build their credit so they can reach their goals. The organization started by helping folks work toward home ownership, and eventually expanded its services to include a path to entrepreneurship.

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