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Four people wearing hard hats are standing around a table with construction blueprints inside a building. One person is pointing at the plans and scaffolding is visible on both sides. The setting suggests a construction or renovation project.Four people wearing hard hats are standing around a table with construction blueprints inside a building. One person is pointing at the plans and scaffolding is visible on both sides. The setting suggests a construction or renovation project.

A spark of inspiration

Electrical apprentice. Union electrician. Instructor. Teila Allmond’s journey is energizing more and more women to enter the trades.

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Meet the Union Electrician. Lighting the Way.

Electrician Teila Allmond shares her story about getting into the electrical industry

Rosie’s girls pre-apprenticeship program

A sisterhood of belonging

“Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t.” Wise words that Teila Allmond holds dear from a middle school mentor. Now a union electrician, Teila has a chance to pay it forward as an instructor at Rosie’s Girls. The pre-apprenticeship program offers women a glimpse into the building and electrical industries—providing an alternative path after high school. It’s an option Teila wishes she had. Knowing the massive trades gap and untapped potential of women in the industry, it’s an option she won’t let the next generation of talented young women miss out on.

A person with a blurred face wearing a light blue polo shirt stands in a classroom and writes electrical equations on a blackboard, holding a piece of paper in the other hand.
A construction scene showing a worker on a yellow ladder installing cables in a ceiling. In the foreground, DEWALT power tools and a black and yellow tool bag are placed on a stack of wooden boards. Another person stands on the ground below, looking up. The environment is indoors with exposed ceiling infrastructure and unfinished walls.

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All in for the trades

We're proud to tell these stories, to inspire the next generation of tradespeople, and to support current tradespeople with the tools they need to get the job done—literally and figuratively. Because it's not just a job to us either.

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