Sr. Director, Employment & Training
Paul Schulz is the Sr. Director, Employment & Training, where he is responsible for developing and administering EMERGE’s workforce development programs, 18 FTE staff, and $1.5M in public/private funding. In addition to overseeing award-winning welfare-to-work, refugee employment, workforce reentry, and career services and financial education programming, Paul has been instrumental in spearheading several agency efforts, including the development of ex-offender programming, a new agency data management system, partnership-building efforts with local ABE providers, and establishing a new employment services site at Neighborhood House (at the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center) in St. Paul, MN.
Paul graduated from the University of Minnesota- Morris with a BA in Sociology/English minor, holds GCDF certification, and has taken master’s level coursework in non-profit management. Paul joined EMERGE in August of 2005 and has previously worked in job development, employment and mental health counseling, and program management roles at EMERGE and other area nonprofits. Paul keeps active in the community by serving on the Board of Directors/chairing the Housing Committee of the North Minneapolis Victory Neighborhood Association (ViNA), and serving on the Executive and Fundraising Committees of the Minnesota Second Chance Coalition and the Events Steering Committee of the Somali Documentary Project.
