When the coronavirus hit Worcester, Kelsey Lamoureux and her family joined Worcester Stitchers for Health and have sewn 1,000 cloth face masks to give to health and community organizations. This huge community impact is a consistent factor in her career.
She served 27 months in the Peace Corps, as a youth development volunteer in Morocco, and has worked as the director of the Worcester Jobs Fund, and on MassHire Central Region Workforce Board. She has leveraged $900,000 in funding for the Worcester Jobs Fund to bring in $700,000 from outside sources. Lamoureux has implemented over a dozen job training programs, across multiple occupations and industries to respond to labor market needs. She has helped 300 job seekers analyze their in demand skills and help find and secure them good and local jobs. Lamoreux is part of job outreach and training programs, within construction and truck driving, serving traditionally underrepresented populations including women and people of color. Lamoureux also provides English tutoring for adults through the Literacy Volunteers of Greater Worcester.
What four people would you like to travel with for a year? Four of my fellow returned Peace Corps volunteers. Nobody lives out of a backpack like an RPCV!
After months of pandemic life, have you realized you want to work from home more? Yes to working from home more, but no to working only from home. There’s just no replacing collaborating with others in person.
