{"id":84129,"date":"2021-10-04T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=bu-article&p=84129"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:41:18","slug":"uplifting-neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/record\/articles\/2021\/uplifting-neighborhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Uplifting Neighborhoods One Project at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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With a budding nonprofit, Daisy Figueroa (\u201921) improves housing for low-income communities.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n
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    In her final year at BU Law, if you didn\u2019t find Daisy Figueroa at her laptop you may have found her reaching for a hammer and nails.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    She and two classmates from her UC Berkeley undergraduate days spent much of their pandemic downtime completing free home remodels for low-income renters in the LA neighborhood where she grew up. They also built dozens of fold-away desks for K\u201312 and college students to make their transition to remote learning a bit easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The pandemic-inspired construction projects eventually seeded a nonprofit, Hood Renovationz<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Even as Figueroa enters the world of corporate business law as a first-year associate at Boston-based Goodwin Procter, she and her workmates intend to keep nurturing and growing the budding social enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cWe\u2019re all so passionate about this organization and we realize it has a lot of potential,\u201d Figueroa says. \u201cAll three of us are equally invested in keeping this vision alive as far as we can possibly take it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n