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Rocking the Boat Profile: Edmanuel Roman

Edmanuel (Eddie) came into the Rocking the Boat Shop as an eighth grader, saying, “When I get to high school I'm going to join Rocking the Boat!” Sure enough, the next semester he joined the program and has been one of the most enthusiastic students in Rocking the Boat history. He has risen to become a “shop apprentice” and then the “senior shop apprentice,” working over 10 hours each week to help run the Rocking the Boat Shop and oversee the other apprentices. Currently, Eddie ha taken his work with Rocking the Boat to a whole new level and is the Shop Assistant at Rocking the Boat's new shop based at the South Street Seaport Museum . He works each afternoon as a boatbuilding instructor. More than anything else, Eddie wants to work with wood. When he's not working, he comes by the shop to help out in any way he can. Twice, he has been commissioned to built cabinets for people who have come in of the street. Both times he built beautiful and functional pieces of furniture and got paid for them. Last summer he built a tree house for an environmental scientist we work with. Eddie hope to work for Rocking the Boat for a long time, with the exception of the two years he dreams of spending at a professional boatbuilding school in Maine so he can return to the Bronx to take over the job of running the Rocking the Boat Shop.

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