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On a recent Thursday, Guy Woodard teaching a client single perspective drawing during an art class at the Fortune Society's Long Island City location. Woodard got out of prison in July 2015. He began teaching art a month later.

Brooke L. Williams

art

Re-enter, Stage Right: Out of Prison and Into the Arts

By Brooke L. Williams | September 22, 2016

‘People tend to have a stereotyped notion of who’s incarcerated and I think when they see people presenting their lives or being creative, they have to reconsider.’

art

Why is NYC’s Art Scene So White?

By Brooke L. Williams | March 22, 2016

In a city that is only one-third non-Hispanic white, only a third of the creative workforce is made up with blacks, Latinos and Asians. What’s keeping the art scene from looking more like the rest of New York?

Green Jobs Gone Missing

Flaws Plagued Pioneering Plan to Upgrade Homes of the Poor

By Annamarya Scaccia, Brooke L. Williams and Samuel Lieberman | January 26, 2016

New York charted a new path to energy efficiency, using “on-bill financing” so low-income homeowners could get retrofits they couldn’t afford up front. But utility companies, lenders and ratings companies all made demands and decisions that made the approach a poor fit for households of limited means.

Economy

NYS’s Green-Energy Loans Played Hard to Get

By Annamarya Scaccia and Brooke L. Williams | January 26, 2016

Some borrowers report positive experiences—and significant savings—under the Green Jobs/Green New York program. But others had a frustrating time with the loan program’s rules and processes.

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