Women’s Stories

Working at Women’s Bean Project has been a very humbling experience. It has challenged my character and my routines. It’s challenged my thoughts of where I’m going in my life and what I aspire to be. Working at Women’s Bean Project has also made my dreams come true. I started here wanting to go into some sort of peer coach training, and I’ve been accepted into a school despite not having a GED. I had to advocate for myself and use my network to accomplish that. The biggest hurdle obtaining a career has been my [read more]

A lot of my childhood consisted of the expectations that I act older than I am. I grew up fast. I started using drugs when I was 13, mostly to escape. My mom left me when I was 16 and I did my best to [read more]

I am a recovering ex–bank robber. I’ve learned to live my life humble and know what it means – the value of life, freedom, being a mother and grandmother, and being able to get up every morning to show up for myself. I ran with [read more]

First and foremost, I am a mother of three boys. I could go on forever about them. Becoming a mother defined who I am. A lot of my life, I was just a mother and a wife. I didn’t finish school.  I didn’t do anything for me [read more]

I first became involved with Women’s Bean Project on October 23, 2019. Jessica and Colleen came to the parole office and told me and a group of other women about it. There were probably 10 other women there and I was the only one who [read more]

I first learned about Women’s Bean Project in 2012 while completing my community service requirement on probation. What brought me here again in 2019, was Dominque, a friend and WBP participant living at the same halfway house. She told me I would get all the things I had been struggling with at the Bean—punctuality, stability, responsibility and structure. The greatest gift of working at the Bean has been the structure and stability. We all have our struggles, and nobody is perfect. This is a place that I feel at home [read more]

I moved out here to Denver in 1982 from Savannah, GA after I graduated high school.  Ever since then I have been on my own. I started working in a hotel in housekeeping in Stapleton and have worked in many different jobs since. I have [read more]