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A unique program gives formerly incarcerated people a Clark experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s tough being the boss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Story from Clark University Magazine<\/a><\/em>, spring\/summer 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Santiago has learned that lesson a dozen different ways since he opened Tru Image Barbershop in downtown Worcester last May. He knows that being the boss means getting customers in the door. It means fixing the leak in the ceiling and making payroll. It means arriving early, staying late, and meeting the moment while still planning for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it also means you\u2019ve got to give a great haircut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019re responsible for all of it,\u201d Santiago says with a grin. \u201cIf something goes wrong, the only person you can call is yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It does help to have allies. Santiago found his through an innovative program at Clark University called Liberal Arts for Returning Citizens, or LARC. The program offers college-level courses to people who were once incarcerated, providing them with the knowledge and tools they need to launch careers, improve communication and critical thinking skills, and build life-enhancing capacities in areas like financial literacy and nutrition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santiago, who had served three months in the Worcester County House of Corrections, took several LARC classes, including Venture Startup with John Dobson, professor of practice in the Clark School of Business and co-director of LARC. The course helped crystallize for him the practical steps he\u2019d need to establish his business, though the motivation and the approach would be all his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe students come up with the ideas that resonate, and they have the agency and autonomy to implement them,\u201d Dobson says. \u201cMy role as faculty is to focus on why they\u2019re doing it, and not on how they\u2019re doing it. Because we can fix the \u2018how\u2019 as long as we have a clear understanding of the \u2018why.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For LARC co-founder and director Shelly Tenenbaum, a professor of sociology and genocide scholar, getting to the \u201cwhy\u201d around the creation of LARC meant learning about the people doing time behind the stone walls and barbed wire in the brooding state prisons that she passed on the highway. What were their stories? How was life inside those walls? Were re- sources available to them as they reentered life beyond prison?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has spent the last eight years getting those questions an- swered by teaching inside prisons in Norfolk and Concord, Massachusetts, through programs run by Boston University and Emerson College, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Business owner and LARC alum Jordan Santiago at work in his Worcester barbershop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was able to take off my blinders after not even knowing my own biases against people who were incarcerated,\u201d Tenenbaum says. \u201cAs I kept teaching, every single one of those biases was dispelled.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dobson was holding entrepreneurship workshops in the Main South neighborhood and in the Worcester County House of Corrections when he and Tenenbaum struck on the idea of starting Liberal Education for Returning Citizens. The duo received funding from a Clark Innovation Grant and recruited Jennifer Plante, associate dean of the college and director of the Writing Center, to launch LARC in fall 2022. Eight students enrolled in three courses: Venture Startup, Introduction to Written and Oral Communication, and Race and Autobiography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As word of the program spread\u2014including through probation, parole, and community reentry organizations\u2014more students enrolled, more faculty members asked to teach classes, and offerings were expanded to include a mix of the humanities, social sciences, STEM, and foundational life skills. This year, LARC constitutes 13 seven-week classes during the fall, spring, and summer terms, serving 35 students in areas ranging from Sociology of Law to computer science, and offers three paid internships. While LARC students do not earn degrees by participating in LARC classes, students are awarded transferable credit for passing the courses. These credits may be transferable to Clark if students enroll in a degree-granting program, as well as to other colleges, community colleges, and universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LARC students are considered part-time Clark students, with access to University programs and facilities like the library, athletic center, and Writing Center. Special evening gatherings provide students a forum to read from their original writings and socialize with faculty and guests, like President David Fithian and Congressman James McGovern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTheir skills were a little rougher than matriculating students, but their ideas were outstanding,\u201d says Plante of the LARC students in her first communications class. \u201cThe mini-memoirs they wrote were so evocative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plante, who serves on the LARC administrative team, says the students are united in one key aspect, \u201cThey are very excited to be students at Clark.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No single LARC student is exactly like another. Some come into the program having spent a couple of months in a county jail; others have been incarcerated in state prison for decades. Some are intent on transforming their thoughts into words; others are looking to define a career path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThese students have the grit. They have the resilience. They have the ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

At every turn, Tenenbaum says, LARC seeks to remove obstacles that can impede a student\u2019s progress. For instance, meals are provided to participants taking evening classes, and students receive a laptop after completing one course\u2014in some cases it\u2019s the first computer they\u2019ve owned. \u201cThe bad experiences, bad memories, family issues, lack of full-time employment\u2014there are many challenges that the students face, and we\u2019re trying to eliminate at least whatever institutional barriers that we can,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about teaching content, it\u2019s about building confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you ask John Dobson for a LARC success story, he\u2019ll quickly come up with examples. Like Corey, one of his Venture Startup students, who sold coffee to sober homes, halfway houses, drop-in centers, and other places that support people in recovery. From there, he created a car-detailing business, and now owns successful home repair\/renovation business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat I like about these stu- dents is that they have the work ethic,\u201d Dobson says. \u201cThey have the grit. They have the resilience. They have the ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before undertaking LARC, Dobson reached out to a psychologist colleague to better understand the behaviors of those who have been involved in the criminal justice system, and realized that entrepreneurship is ideal for channeling those behaviors in a positive direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople crave respect; they crave affiliation and affirmation,\u201d he says. \u201cThey want to know that what they\u2019re doing is valuable for themselves and their community.\u201d
Dobson has created four courses designed to achieve his students\u2019 entrepreneurial aims: Venture Startup, Venture Growth, Food Truck Practicum, and Entrepreneurial Leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the course of seven weeks we see a number of these students progress really far,\u201d he says. \u201cThe goal always is that they operate in a climate of creativity and innovation so that they can continue to come up with ideas to move their projects forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LARC operates through a patchwork of foundational and state grants, though Tenenbaum hopes for a more stable funding stream. The program, she insists, is worth sustaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe all mess up, some of us in bigger ways than others,\u201d Tenenbaum says. \u201cThat\u2019s why second chances are so important. And I\u2019m very proud of Clark for being willing to give those second chances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jackie’s Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lifelong learner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jackie<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If she had a million dollars, Jacqueline \u201cJackie\u201d Scott knows exactly what she would do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would buy a big old house and just build bookcases all over the place,\u201d she says. \u201cIt would be open to people just to come take a book, leave a book, read a book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s this love of the written word that attracted Scott to LARC, where she\u2019s explored the life and times of Frederick Douglass, learned the art of autobiography writing, delved into the horrors of genocide, and studied ethics one-on-one with Harvard theologian Matthew Potts. Her original writings have been published in an online literary journal, and her observations have found their way into The Boston Globe\u2019s op-ed pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott, 73, of Boston, describes herself as a \u201clifelong learner\u201d with a fascination for history (David McCullough and Erik Larson are among her favorite authors). She has taken a LARC course every semester since the program started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A retired paralegal, Scott spent three-and-a-half years in MCI-Framingham following \u201ca moment that defined my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI lost everything because of my crime. Family included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I came back, I didn\u2019t expect to have the life I had before,\u201d Scott says. \u201cI just knew how difficult it was for returning citizens to integrate into the community and find people to accept us just as people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While investigating programs to help some of the women she tutored in MCI-Framingham, she saw a flyer advertising LARC. Intrigued, Scott reached out to Shelly Tenenbaum, who, after learning of Scott\u2019s passions for reading, writing, and research, responded with five simple words: \u201cThis program is for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it will be, for as long as she chooses to be a part of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see the end game,\u201d Scott says of her participation in LARC, adding with a laugh, \u201cother than Shelly runs out of people who want to play with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jordan\u2019s Story <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hustle. Conquer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jordan<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Just as no two heads of hair are exactly alike, it wasn\u2019t a certainty that Jordan Santiago would own a barbershop. But given his family track record\u2014his brother and uncles were barbers\u2014he seemed destined for the clippers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He learned the trade and became talented at styling. For additional money, he operated a side business selling sneakers and clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santiago\u2019s brief stint in county prison, followed by a job in a meat-packing plant, convinced him that he needed to bet on himself to have a meaningful future. When the opportunity arose to purchase a fire-damaged storefront on Pleasant Street in Worcester that had once been his brother\u2019s barbershop, he seized it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the encouragement of his brother, Angel, also a LARC student, Santiago took several LARC courses\u2014including computer science, which gave him proficiency with the Excel program that allows him to track his inventory and expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been going good,\u201d he says of Tru Image. \u201cIt has its ups and downs, but that\u2019s part of life, right?\u201d Among those \u201cups\u201d is something that gives Santiago great pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI knew how difficult it was to find people who accept us just as people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of kids from Clark come to get their hair cut,\u201d he says, smiling. \u201cIt\u2019s funny, because they\u2019ve got to pass by at least five or six barbershops to get here. I like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posters hang on the wall above every one of his barber chairs, each containing a single word: Hustle. Success. Execution. Grind. Conquer. They are the inspirational shorthand for the Worcester man and LARC alum who is committed to the premise that he is building something of value here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople come in, and by the time they get out of the chair, they feel happy. We make people feel good about themselves,\u201d Santiago says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything changes after a haircut.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nate\u2019s Story <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Entrepreneur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nate<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nate Bethancourt acknowledges that he sometimes skips around in time when he tells a story, especially his own story. His ADHD, he says, can make linearity a challenge.
But Bethancourt\u2019s focus, after a shaky start that included an early flirtation with gang life and a brief stretch in the Worcester County House of Corrections, is uncompromisingly true these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bethancourt joined LARC at the start of the program in 2022, intrigued by the notion of returning to school after he\u2019d taken some com- munity college classes. Seeking practical skills and creative inspiration, he\u2019s since completed LARC courses in a wide array of subjects that have included oral and written communications, entrepreneurship, computer science, guitar, chemistry, philosophy, and songwriting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nate<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, Bethancourt earned his way into Clark Tank, the annual event at which Clark students pitch their business ideas to potential investors. He didn\u2019t win the competition, but the positive feedback he received for his fresh juice business idea helped supercharge his entrepreneurial instincts. Today, he owns and operates Health Ya\u2019Self, through which he produces and sells cold-pressed juices in convenience stores and other locales as a healthy alternative to soda and energy drinks. He\u2019s also a chef, with the goal of one day selling his juices from his own food truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The knowledge and expertise he\u2019s received through LARC is helping him get there. Bethan- court has now chosen to serve on LARC\u2019s Student Advisory Committee, working to find ways to improve the academic experience for others, especially for students who are new to the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe professors are always going out of their way to make students feel welcome,\u201d Bethancourt says. \u201cThe courses are intense, but you have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you feel their commitment to you, it makes it easier to stay committed to yourself.\u201d \u25a1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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