In May, 2020, Daniece joined Pallet’s team as a manufacturing specialist. Like most of Pallet’s employees who build the company’s rapid, dignified, and proven shelters, Daniece has lived experience with homelessness, substance use disorder, and incarceration – and knows all too well the challenges people with similar backgrounds face when looking for work.
Now two months into her role at Pallet, we asked Daniece what she thought of her new career, her goals for the future, and what it means to be building shelter for people who are experiencing homelessness.
What do you do here at Pallet?
At Pallet, my job is a manufacturing specialist. My role is to build shelters for the homeless.
You’ve mentioned that, like most of Pallet’s employees, you have experience with homelessness, substance use disorder, and incarceration in your past. Can you tell us about that?
At times in my past it seemed the only constant in my life was rock bottom. I was born addicted to drugs. I have been incarcerated five times. My full-time job was selling drugs, boosting, and prostitution.
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