Have you heard the one about the jailhouse lawyer with a law degree from Yale and a trade school diploma from Lincoln Technical College? The same jailhouse lawyer who went on to launch a networking platform that elevates the skilled trades and connects workers and employers all over the country?
The former jailhouse lawyer in question is Darnell Epps, and if you’re not intrigued by the trajectory of his career path or the ambitious goals of his unique enterprise, perhaps you’ll be curious about the circumstances that led to a seventeen year sentence in a maximum security jail before he decided to close America's skills gap.
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00:00 Meeting Darnell
05:31 How Darnell became incarcerated
17:09 Becoming an inmate law clerk
29:52 Getting parole
44:59 Going to law school
50:21 Being exposed to the skills gap
56:48 Creating the app for workers, Thurgood