For some, career paths are paved and peppered with signs leading straight to their destination’s door. But for others, the path was never laid at all.

Guiding New Jersey’s youth through untrodden career territory is Hopeworks Camden. The tech education nonprofit trains, and pays, youth ages 17 through 26 to do basic coding and design work with the ultimate goal of placing them in full-time, high-wage jobs.

“Getting into tech is tough for anyone, but especially without the right background” said Annie Rose Webb, the org’s director of web development. “Some of our students are also getting their GED in the process — which we help with — or dealing with housing or food insecurity.”

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