Center for Public Health Workforce Development
TRAINEE PROFILE: KARIMA JACKSON
A Cleaner Newark, One Property at a Time
Karima Jackson is the President of Exquisite Property Services, located in Newark. Her company offers a myriad of services to the greater Newark area: appliance and scrap removal, construction clean-up, waste and recycling disposal, and janitorial services. In order to safely grow her company, she and one of her employees enrolled in the Center for Public Health Workforce Development’s 40-Hour Hazardous Waste course. Exquisite Cleaning is a newly registered A901 solid waste hauling company and they want to expand to hazardous waste hauling and removal. Karima’s company philosophy is to build, grow, and deliver cleaner communities, one property at a time. As the company President, Karima doesn’t anticipate frequently needing to be hands-on with hazardous waste, but she needs the knowledge the course offers in order to ensure her company is run with the highest standards. In addition to running her company, Karima is a doctoral candidate at the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark, studying constitutional governance and social equity. One of the really cool things about this course is its not just textbook knowledge. It’s hands on, experiential learning, putting on a suit, and actually getting a feel for what this looks like in the field... It helps you learn and digest the information, which is extremely complicated but this makes it much easier.” “
- Karima Jackson President, Exquisite Property Services
All photos taken from 40-Hour Health and Safety for Hazardous Waste Personnel courses
Photo credits (left): Megan Rockafellow-Baldoni, Paul Gogliormella (Rutgers Institutional Planning and Operations)
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Photo credit (above left): Denis Crayon Photo credit (above right): Laura Warne
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