Why This Yale Law School Grad Went to Trade School and Wants Others to Do the Same

While studying at Yale Law School, Darnell Epps heard that U.S.
manufacturers were grappling with a labor shortage, and he was
baffled that tens of thousands of valuable community-supporting
jobs weren't finding applicants. So, he enrolled at a trade school
to become a certified machinist and find out what the heck was
going wrong. What he learned was that the skilled trades are an
invaluable pathway to the middle class, and that workers needed
better tools to connect with potential employers, prompting him to
build Thurgood Industries, a career-networking app tailored to
skilled trade workers. Photo courtesy Thurgood Industries