Breaking Into Startups
Breaking Into Startups
Breaking Into Startups
#31: Kenyatta Leal - Surviving San Quentin Prison By Walking The Last Mile into a Job in Tech
1 hour 10 minutes Posted Mar 7, 2017 at 4:00 pm.
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One thing Kenyatta Leal knows is that while there’s no manual for surviving a life sentence, tapping into the power of visualization can definitely get you far (in fact, as far as getting out of prison and now working as a Manager of Campus Services at RocketSpace, a tech campus for startups.)
Kenyatta believes that the greatest challenges present the greatest opportunities.
A former resident at San Quentin State Prison, Kenyatta owned up for the bad choices he had made in the past and corrected his course. He eventually became the founding member of The Last Mile, a startup accelerator and entrepreneurial program, where they help incarcerated individuals develop tech skills in order to prepare them for successful re-entry.