Maine has been ‘growing goodwill’ in its communities for decades. Today we speak with Julia Sleeper, Founder and Executive Director of Tree Street Youth Center in Lewiston, which has been supporting area children through academics, the arts and athletics for the past ten years. We also speak with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, President and CEO of Goodwill Northern New England, a one-hundred-year old organization that helps families find stability through work, and letting nothing go to waste.
Guests
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (known as Anne) is the President and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Northern New England, a not-for-profit social enterprise with over 2,000 employees serving Maine, New Hampshire and northern Vermont. Goodwill operates diverse retail, health care and workforce services that help individuals and families find stability through work while extending a hundred year practice of letting nothing go to waste.
Julia Sleeper
Julia Sleeper is the Founder and Executive Director of Tree Street Youth Center in Lewiston, Maine. She was born and raised in Bangor area and initially moved to Lewiston/Auburn as an undergraduate at Bates College. During her time as a student she began connecting to the Downtown Lewiston community youth through service learning opportunities afforded to her as a Psychology and Education major. Over the past 10 years Julia has continued to build on these relationships providing after school programming for the at risk youth living in the Downtown Tree Street Neighborhood.