Meet Andrea Bowens, founder and Executive Director of the Bull City Woodshop. 

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Andrea's passion for woodworking started as a young girl who learned woodworking skills in her local 4-H program. She took after her father who was a carpenter, and she continued to build with wood as a hobby into her adult years. 

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Her passion for mentoring and teaching children and teens has also been a life-long calling. She has worked in many arenas such as schools, churches, and non-profits in order to invest in the lives of the next generation. 

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Andrea moved to Wilmington, NC in 2011. She discovered a non-profit there called Kids Making It that mentored teens through woodworking education. She volunteered there before relocating to Durham in 2017. 

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In 2021, Andrea decided to combine her passions of teaching, mentoring, education, and woodworking to create a program that would expose kids and teenagers to the world of carpentry. Through the teaching of a hands-on skill, it is Andrea's goal to develop meaningful relationships with the students in an effort to help see them through to a successful adult life.