Director of Marketing, Community Development, and Entrepreneurship Iowa City Area Development Group AGE: 26 What was your first job? Food server at Legacy Assisted Living Home in Iowa City. Best advice you ever received? “Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.’” What do you consider your […]
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Director of Marketing, Community Development, and Entrepreneurship
Iowa City Area Development Group
AGE: 26
What was your first job? Food server at Legacy Assisted Living Home in Iowa City.
Best advice you ever received? “Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.’”
What do you consider your biggest break so far? Being hired as the director of communications at the Iowa City Area Development Group in 2018.
What would most people be surprised to learn about you? I really enjoy learning about local history and local architecture. Irving Weber’s Iowa City book collection and Margaret N. Keyes’ Nineteenth Century Home Architecture of Iowa City are two of my favorite collections.
What’s the biggest issue facing the Corridor, and why? Workforce – whether it’s local restaurants and shops struggling to hire hourly workers or larger organizations searching for talent, it seems to be a consistent struggle for all.
If you had $1 million to give, what causes would you support? Local cycling initiatives and organizations. I would love to see more singletrack mountain bike trails in our community as well as a pump track. I would support the Iowa City Bike Library.
What are your passions outside of the workplace? Riding bikes – gravel grinding, singletrack shredding, townie rides on paved trails.
What’s something people should know about your generation in the workplace? If you don’t have a people-first culture, you won’t have the people you need to survive.
What do you want to accomplish by the time you are 50? Personally, I hope to have a healthy, happy and active family. Professionally, I hope to continue to be in a career that challenges and inspires me every day.
