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Born and raised in Eritrea, located in East Africa, Ms. Kesete migrated to the U.S. in 1997. Ms. Kesete was raised by a single mom and was taught the important values of hard work and dedication as a means to improve her livelihood. Following her mother’s entrepreneurial spirit, Ms. Kesete left from Minnesota and moved to Wisconsin where she earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing and Sales from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and also earned her certification in Community Administrative Leadership.

After graduating, Ms. Kesete amassed over 6 years of experience working in the mental health field by working as a care coordinator for Wraparound Milwaukee. Ms. Kesete has always remained connected to her communities and has been steadfast in her mission to better Milwaukee communities as evidenced by her direct engagement with a number of underserved communities in Milwaukee. Ms. Kesete has made her dreams of making an effective contribution to Milwaukee neighborhoods come true.

Furthermore, Ms. Kesete is also a graduate of the prestigious Associates in Commercial Real Estate program, where she heavily studied all aspects of the commercial real estate industry. Ms. Kesete has been resolute in her dedication to finding solutions to aid in responding to neighborhood needs and will continue to make her mark in underserved Milwaukee communities as an established developer, and furt

As schoolteachers, Charles and Rachel Uihlein were frustrated that the educational experiences taught to inner-city teens in Milwaukee were not fully preparing them for careers in the real world.

So, in 2014, they founded Teens Grow Greens Inc., a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization to fill in the educational gaps they were seeing first-hand.

“As teachers, we saw a lack of avenues for success for a lot of high school students and a lack of the soft skills needed for the 21st-century workplace. Our end goal was to build an internship that developed those skills through experience and provided connections to future employment and/or education,” said Charles Uihlein, who is executive director of the organization. “Also, we found that it is important for teenagers to have employment experience because those teenagers are more likely to graduate from high school, be employed within the following year and earn more money over their lifetimes.”

Fore more information visit https://www.teensgrowgreens.org.