Watch: 'We are not our mistakes.' [resolvemagazine.org]

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By Cecily Sailer, Resolve Magazine, June 2, 2021

On a chilly spring morning in Philadelphia, Michelle Simmons unlocks the door to the building she owns on Chelten Avenue, not far from her old middle school.

She owns three buildings in Germantown, actually. More accurately, her nonprofit owns them.

But Simmons and her organization, Why Not Prosper, are basically synonymous.

Once inside the building, she moves quickly, flipping light switches, sorting paperwork, stuffing goodie bags, talking herself through each to-do. She tackles detail after detail, always moving forward, building her dream to help formerly incarcerated women like herself.

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