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Rob Oakleaf
Executive Director, Kalamazoo Valley Habitat for Humanity
Rob Oakleaf became a nonprofit CEO because
of fingerprints. After Oakleaf graduated in 2001 from Kalamazoo College with a degree in computer science, he worked as a high school computer science teacher, freelance web designer and bartender, among other things. "I was working part time at this funny job fingerprinting people for non-criminal offenses, say, if you were going to work at a day care or (continued on page 33)
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