St. Joseph High students find ways to serve
Inspired by Homeboy Industries, St. Joseph High students find ways to serve
Margaret Hernandez, a St. Joseph High School graduate in her 21st year of teaching at the Catholic all-girls school in Lakewood, remembers first seeing Father Greg Boyle speak in 2005 at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.
She was spellbound.
By then, Boyle’s Homeboy Industries — the innovative Boyle Heights program that offers high-risk youth, former gang members, and the recently incarcerated a chance at a new life — was well known and the Catholic priest’s book, “Tattoos on the Heart,” would soon become a New York Times bestseller.
Inspired by Boyle, Hernandez started volunteering in the Educational Services department of Homeboy Industries in 2013.