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BUILDING SUPPORT: Women growing in the trades

TRAINING: Quiana Ferguson, left, and Glendale Perez, center, students in a Building Futures pre-apprenticeship class that was held earlier this year from May 5 to June 6, work with Building Futures training team instructor Brook Swanson, second from right, on an exercise designed to introduce techniques used by millwrights. Pictured at right foreground is an unidentified student.
COURTESY BUILDING FUTURES
TRAINING: Quiana Ferguson, left, and Glendale Perez, center, students in a Building Futures pre-apprenticeship class that was held earlier this year from May 5 to June 6, work with Building Futures training team instructor Brook Swanson, second from right, on an exercise designed to introduce techniques used by millwrights. Pictured at right foreground is an unidentified student.
COURTESY BUILDING FUTURES

Catherine Pena was working two jobswith three little boys at home trying to make ends meet when a friend suggested working in the trades. Today, Pena is the business representative/organizer for the Carpenters Union Local 330 and current chair of the Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council’s Women’s Council. Amy Parrilla and Jenifer Gomez

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