Building Confidence: Amber Wiggett Encourages Women to Build and Remodel Homes

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Photo By Jordan Silverman
Sustainable house builder Amber Wiggett encourages women to wield carpenter’s tools.

“One of my missions is to help women learn to build houses and prove they’re capable of providing for their basic housing needs.”
–Amber Wiggett

We can do it!

As a petite, young woman–she’s 27 years old and 5 feet 4 inches tall–Amber Wiggett says she has found it challenging to be accepted as a house builder. Like her hero Rosie the Riveter, she flexed her socially active biceps and founded Homemakers Ecological Construction in Plainfield, Vermont, in 2003. The business trains and employs women and transgendered people (of both sexes) to build and remodel houses.

Demystifying construction

  • Published on Mar 1, 2006
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