While in Chicago I spent over five years tutoring adults in basic education, GED, and ESL. The program I worked with offered free educational services to adults as well as classes in welding and manufacturing. As as tutor I worked with a variety of students with diverse backgrounds - from a student in his 20s working to achieve his GED, to an overnight nurse from Africa hoping for the same, to an immigrant from Guatemala who could neither read nor write in Spanish nor English, to a former prison
