Andre Peart founded ConConnect in 2020, the first professional networking platform for the formerly incarcerated.
He had no apartment or job. He was no longer together with his long-term girlfriend. He didn't know who to contact or even how. Having spent almost six years incarcerated, he missed most of the technology updates that shaped the world he was stepping into.The open gates didn't offer much freedom -- at 23 years old, he walked out of his sentence with $40 in gate money and a bus ticket, which couldn't get him very far.Peart lived in local shelters for about a year.
But he was dejected when he found out that the formerly incarcerated can't get a real estate license in New York state."You dedicate yourself to these programs, and when you come home you can't actually pursue your dream," he said."It feels like so many doors are closed, and you're only left with blue collar jobs like construction, which is what I ended up doing to have a living."Peart also hopes to tackle that.
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