Meet Andy Magel, founder of the Denver ESE Collective. "ESE" stands for Employment Social Enterprise, and in this episode of Hotlines, the first of a 2-part conversation, Magel sits down in the CRJ studio with producer Ryan Conarro and Darren Smith from Remerg to explain what an ESE is: a business where creating and supporting jobs for people facing barriers is the primary mission, blending enterprise with social purpose…
Denver7's Ryan Fish spoke with the founders of Convict Coffee and R&R Head Labs. Both are working to better the lives of people in, or getting out of, the criminal justice system.
On any given morning inside a warehouse off Alameda Avenue in Denver, you'll find a hard-working group on an assembly line, carefully and proudly producing boxes of goods for sale to the community. Each box is "made with love," as it says on the side, along with the names of women who assembled them….