Shalimar Williams opened Holy Beanz Coffee Shop in Portland to help former prisoners, like herself.
Shalimar Williams talks with FOX Television Stations about her Oregon coffee shop, where she employs women who have had a checkered past.Shalimar Williams knows firsthand how life can be difficult outside of prison. So she opened up a coffee shop employing women who have also had a checkered past. in Portland, Oregon. She opened up her business in late January.
Williams said she fell in love with the cup of joe and the Christian faith during her incarceration. She said inmates would work the prison’s "coffee cart" and develop barista skills but couldn’t do anything with them once they were back in the free world. "You get out of prison, and you have all these barista skills...who’s going to hire you?" she said. "There are a lot of corporate companies that are not going to hire you.
"People need to know that there’s a space where they can come and feel loved and be vulnerable, and maybe they need a resource," Williams added.
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