Bridgeport leadership program aims to train parents, change lives

Bridgeport leadership program aims to train parents, change lives

Sandra Carmichael was working at Diageo, a wine and spirits company, in 2004 when she met Dee Crawford-Tyner, one of the Parent Leadership Training Institute’s first graduates in Bridgeport. The two struck up a conversation about getting involved in the community, something that had been in Sandra’s heart since moving from Stamford to Bridgeport in 1989. Helping people had always come naturally to her. She grew up dreaming of working in corporat…