How I Built Resilience: Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries

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And thanks. Hey everyone and welcome to How I Built This Resilience edition from NPR. On these episodes, we talk with entrepreneurs and change makers about how they're meeting today's challenges with new strategies and ideas. And today we're going to hear from Father Gregory Boyle. He's the founder of Homeboy Industries. Father Greg founded Homebo Industries after years of serving as a Jesuit priest and later as a pastor at Dolores Mission Church in East LA. where he saw the devastating effects of gang related violence on his community. After operating for over thirty years, Homebo Industries has become one of the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry programs.

In the world. About fifteen thousand folks a year walk through our doors trying to reimagine their lives. We were begun in nineteen eighty eight. Just in my parish, which was the poorest in the city, but it had the highest concentration of gang activity. We had eight gangs war with each other. And I started to bury

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