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RICH PRATER
Masonry Instructor
Richard Prater has nearly 40 years of experience as a union bricklayer. Richard began his career as a mason through activist Nate Smith’s Operation Dig, a program launched in Pittsburgh that paved the way for thousands of racial minorities and women to join the trade unions.