Shepherding social change, one day-laborer at a time

Derek Snook, a 2008 Furman University history graduate, spent time teaching in Kenya, chose to live a year in a Charleston homeless shelter, and worked for a short time as a day-laborer. Not long after, he and a business partner launched In Every Story, a non-traditional staffing company that pays higher wages, rewards reliability and hard work through profit sharing and bonuses, and aims to transition workers to full-time jobs. Journalist Stephanie Hunt writes about Snook’s business model in Faith & Leadership, a publication of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School. Photo courtesy of www.shutterstock.com.