The Conversation Construction Avoids w/ Kristi Ronyak
Kristi Ronyak w/ Construction Angels – DT 487
Kristi Ronyak is the Founder and CEO of Construction Angels, a nonprofit providing immediate financial assistance and grief counseling to families after a construction worker is killed in a work-related accident. Growing up in a third-generation asphalt family, Kristi never really thought about construction fatalities until a woman collecting money for a fallen worker’s family stopped her at World of Asphalt in 2009. On the flight home, she couldn’t stop thinking about why an industry built around taking care of its own didn’t have an organization dedicated to supporting the families left behind.
That question eventually became Construction Angels. Kristi shares what happens in the days after a worker doesn’t come home, why more than half of the fatalities her organization responds to involve workers being struck by traffic, and why the construction industry needs to become more comfortable talking about death instead of only reacting after something goes wrong. She also explains how Construction Angels gets money into families’ hands quickly, provides grief counseling and scholarships, and why her ultimate goal is to one day have no families left to help.
Follow Kristi Ronyak on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristi-ronyak-construction-angels-inc-national-charity-64a45520
Learn more about Construction Angels at: https://www.constructionangels.us/
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