Havenly is a community café and training center located at 25 Temple St; its very walls were built through a labor of love alongside the non-profit Emerge, which helps formely incarcerated people get jobs in construction.

Havenly recognizes how refugee and immigrant women are often pushed into “survival jobs,” which they define on their site as “dead end jobs that leave no time for education, personal improvement or civic engagement.” The café offers women 15-20 hours a week of paid work experience in their kitchen/at the register, in addition to 4-6 hours a week for workshops on ESL, self-advocacy, political education, financial and digital literacy, and career coaching.

Havenly also shows just how powerful of a love language food can be !! The café serves as an organizing network and form of sisterhood. All while bonding over baklava and grape leaves, folks are able to build community with local organizers, power map, and participate in art/dance/music activities–––joy is a critical part of building power and transformation! Havenly is also staffed by alumni of this fellowship and refugee and immigrant women from low-income backgrounds, desiring to: “put decision making power and leadership positions in the hands of women from the community we serve.”