Build It Green Celebrates Graduating Team Members, Community With New Home On Glass Street Thursday, May 6, 2021
Dexter Talley
When Quran Whatley walks into work in the morning, he sees a space he helped create with his own hands. The 25-year-old graduated in 2018 from the previous version of Build it Green, the sustainable leadership and workforce development program run by green|spaces, and now serves as a leader in the relaunch in its new space on Glass Street. After losing funding for the program at the beginning of COVID, green|spaces and Build Me a World redesigned the program to work with the AmeriCorps Opportunity Youth Service Initiative. Team members receive a living stipend as they learn sustainable building practices and skills and then put those skills to work improving homes and neighborhoods.