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Trading Up: ABC's 2023 Craft Professional of the Year, Jared Foster

‘I wish when I was in high school that I had what they have now, and that is people who are invested in the trades, actually pushing for people going to the trades.’
By Grace Calengor
June 1, 2023
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by Grace Calengor
Grace Calengor is senior editor of Construction Executive. Prior to joining ABC in April 2023, she was managing editor of The Zebra Press in Alexandria, Virginia. She graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, in 2020 with two bachelor’s degrees in English and classics, and a minor in comparative literature.

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