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DIY GRRL Teaches Women How To Do Household Projects Themselves

A Humboldt Park resident decided to take matters into her own hands and help women and others along the way by creating an education collective teaching essential life skills. We invited Summer Lambert, the founder of Diy Grrl, to tell us about her empowering project.

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