💼 In a new BBJ op-ed, Clean Slate advocate and Mass Competitive Partnership CEO Jay Ash @jayashmacp.bsky.social makes a powerful case for why Clean Slate legislation isn’t just about justice—it’s about economic growth and workforce development. 🔗 Read the full article: www.cleanslatema.org/news

📢 “‘Clean Slate,’ or [automated] record sealing, is a simple and effective solution that will help get justice-impacted talent back to work, strengthen local businesses, and unlock economic opportunity for our entire state.” -- @jayashmacp.bsky.social

Always great to be with the New England Board of Higher Education’s Michael Thomas (ctr) & everyone’s fave higher ed leader, Charlie Desmond. We naturally talked higher ed - specifically learning & careers preparedness - NEBHE is in the center of both & smartly moving forward!

A St Patty’s Day Parade leftover on the T, appropriately the Green Line!

The Chelsea Research Festival call for abstracts is up! Event will be on May 15th 2025. Research projects should either be about Chelsea, Massachusetts in some way, or it the work should be performed by a member of the Chelsea community. The event is good fun! www.chelsearesearchfestival.com

Thanksgiving scenes - good time (and food) has by all - and it’s just about custard pie time!

If only there was some way to remove viruses from milk www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Thx to @DavidBCrowley of Social Capital Inc for two things yesterday: 1. A long overdue check in (how do I know it was long overdue…he presented me w an award from 2020!), and 2. All you’ve done for TWO DECADES to support individuals & communities to develop social capital on the way to prospering!

I’m committing to making at least one post a day here - care to join me? We’ve got to get these timelines more robust! Half of mine right now are posts of football…and it’s football from the wrong side of the pond!

It was great catching up with you, Jay! Honored to be your first selfie on Blue Sky. Thought I would give you the same!

Other Chelsea, MA blueskyer’s here? Follow us and let’s get a group started!

Members of the Uniquely Abled Academy @ EXCEL @ Bridgewater State team empowered by @BridgeStateU Pres Clark to initiate a manufacturing training program for young adults on the Autism Spectrum attended the MassLWD release of $3.2m to 29 orgs to support apprenticeship programs. Thx Gov Healey!

Here I am, in what is apparently the alternative universe (which I actually believed was the domain of those others). Hope to have warm discourse & enlightened banter - anyone else to follow me here?

My 1st pic post is w Max Coren, & rightly so. He’s a MACP fellow alum - couldn’t be prouder of him now. He’s @ Young Man with a Plan, the Boston youth dev org helping 8-12 grade young men find their better lives thru ed, enrichment & family. Max is on a mission to make an impact - he’s doing so!

My 1st pic post is w Max Coren, & rightly so. He’s a MACP fellow alum - couldn’t be prouder of him now. He’s @ Young Man with a Plan, the Boston youth dev org helping 8-12 grade young men find their better lives thru ed, enrichment & family. Max is on a mission to make an impact - he’s doing so!

Here I am, in what is apparently the alternative universe (which I actually believed was the domain of those others). Hope to have warm discourse & enlightened banter - anyone else to follow me here?