Former educator helps teens build houses, careers and community in Chicago

Williams (centre) giving a talk to his former Collins Academy High School students as they view a home under construction, which they all helped to design.

Marshall Douthard Jr, 19, can picture himself on the expansive balcony of the single-family home that looks out over Chicago’s Garfield Park neighbourhood in the United States, a house that he helped build.

“Just walking out in a robe, with a cup of coffee in the morning,” he said.