N2TEC Launches Community Speaker Series in Black Hills
Ashley Swearengin currently serves as the Director of the Office of Community and Economic Development at California State University, Fresno. As the Director, Ashley works with industry, economic development officials, and elected and community leaders in an eight-county area on efforts related to implementing “Knowledge Economy” initiatives, such as industry cluster development, telecommunications infrastructure, rural development, entrepreneurship, and building leadership capacity. She is also responsible for leading the Regional Jobs Initiative, a comprehensive community and economic development strategy focused on the creation of 30,000 net new jobs in the Greater Fresno, California Region, a largely agricultural area, by the end of 2008. Under Ashley’s direction, the Central Valley Business Incubator more than doubled in size and reached 100% occupancy.
In her talk entitled “Economic Development in an Entrepreneurial World,” Ashley provded helpful tools for practitioners on building economic development collaboratives using her experience in developing the Regional Jobs Initiative, a consortium of 600 businesses, 24 non profits and 3 elected bodies, and the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley, an 8-county public-private task force initiated by Governor Schwarzenegger.
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