Meet a Scientologist—Verlene Cheesboro is Creating a Positive Future for Harlem Youth
Realizing that incarceration does little to really help the community or the individual, Verlene Cheesboro looked for positive solutions. She found them in Scientology.Verlene Cheesboro believes in the future, and the future is our children. But she knows belief is not enough. It takes effective education and the community working together to guarantee their success. “As a sergeant with the New York State Department of Corrections, I was dealing with the casualties of the education system,” says Cheesboro. “I knew this was a dead-end activity.” So in 1998, she started running a