MFG* Apprenticeships
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An educational—entrepreneurial hybrid in the high desert.



 Tuition-free training of local hands-on learners in trades that help build out spaces they want to occupy as adults in the Morongo Basin. By working with our hands, we work together to build a better future for ourselves. MFG fosters meaningful skills and meaningful relationships.

     


























*MFG, short for Mojave Fabrication Guild, grew from designer Roni Koltuniak’s advanced study of sociology, specifically her academic re-consideration of the 2016 documentary, The Bad Kids, profiling the at-risk students of Black Rock Continuation High School. Within this context, MFG offers an act of community reclamation, rooted not in perceived morality, but rather potential, positivity and opportunity.

roni@verokolt.com
PeopleMFG celebrates local talents: Founder Roni Koltuniak has spent 30 years working on design projects across the country (dba Verokolt), now from her homebase in Yucca Valley, where she is concurrently pursuing a degree in Sociology from Copper Mountain College; David and Brian Lepe, a father-and-son upholstery team based in Palm Springs, bring decades of experience to their role as mentors; and Morongo Basin-native James Ruiz was innundated with service calls the moment he became a certified electrician, a deluge that compells his desire to train more tradespeople in the high desert.