G. Sequane Lawrence
Sequane is former founding CEO of the Chicago Center for Arts and Technology, a state-of-art vocational/technical training institution and youth-centered arts program for low-income Chicago residents.
Sequane is a Chicago Community Trust 2011 Fellow. His fellowship is concerned with the efficacy of worker owner cooperatives as an entrepreneurial and workforce development model for low-income people. Sequane led a delegation to Mondragon, in the Basque region of Spain to study first-hand the historic Mondragon Cooperatives Corporation and Cleveland, Ohio to observe the ground breaking worker-owned Evergreen Cooperatives.
Sequane is the President of the Fathers, Families, and Healthy Communities (FFHC) Demonstration Project. FFHC focuses on issues that impact low-income non-custodial fathers and their children throughout Illinois. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois- Circle Campus. Sequane was formerly the Director of the Elliott Donnelley Youth Center (EDYC) in Chicago’s Bonneville community.
He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Youth Service Project (YSP), a youth development organization in the Humboldt Park community in Chicago where he led the way in providing youth-centered human services, market-driven workforce strategies, leadership development, entrepreneurship, economic development and comprehensive multi-media and arts programs for Latino and African-American youth.
Sequane holds a Masters of Science degree in Community Economic Development from New Hampshire College in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Sequane is former founding CEO of the Chicago Center for Arts and Technology, a state-of-art vocational/technical training institution and youth-centered arts program for low-income Chicago residents.
Sequane is a Chicago Community Trust 2011 Fellow. His fellowship is concerned with the efficacy of worker owner cooperatives as an entrepreneurial and workforce development model for low-income people. Sequane led a delegation to Mondragon, in the Basque region of Spain to study first-hand the historic Mondragon Cooperatives Corporation and Cleveland, Ohio to observe the ground breaking worker-owned Evergreen Cooperatives.
Sequane is the President of the Fathers, Families, and Healthy Communities (FFHC) Demonstration Project. FFHC focuses on issues that impact low-income non-custodial fathers and their children throughout Illinois. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois- Circle Campus. Sequane was formerly the Director of the Elliott Donnelley Youth Center (EDYC) in Chicago’s Bonneville community.
He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Youth Service Project (YSP), a youth development organization in the Humboldt Park community in Chicago where he led the way in providing youth-centered human services, market-driven workforce strategies, leadership development, entrepreneurship, economic development and comprehensive multi-media and arts programs for Latino and African-American youth.
Sequane holds a Masters of Science degree in Community Economic Development from New Hampshire College in Manchester, New Hampshire.