Temple’s first annual reentry job fair provides hope for returning citizens

5/07/24

A crowd of participants at a reentry job fair at Temple University.

Pictured from left to right at Temple University’s first annual Reentry Job Fair and Resource Village include Desmond Mckinson, legislative aide at the Office of Senator Sharif Street; Michael Robinson, director of Temple University’s Lenfest North Philadelphia Workforce Initiative; Patrick Jackson Keough, program director of Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity; Rep. Darisha Parker (District 198 Philadelphia); and Jeffrey Abramowitz, president and CEO of the Petey Greene Program.

Courtesy of Michael Robinson

More than 300 attended Temple University's first-ever Reentry Job Fair and Resource Village at the Howard Gittis Student Center on April 19. The job fair is designed to

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