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Apr 9, 2019

First in Future: President of the North Carolina Society of Hispanic Professionals Marco Zarate

Summary: Twenty years ago, three Latino couples, made up of an engineer, a scientist, an IT professional and three teachers, took a look at what was going on with Latino… 

Apr 2, 2019

First in Future: Chief Executive Officer and President of MCNC Jean Davis

Summary: In 1985, the state of North Carolina jumped way ahead of most of the rest of the country. They asked a fledgling organization called the Microelectronics Center of North… 

Mar 26, 2019

First in Future: Chief Executive Officer and President of the Piedmont Triad Partnership Stan Kelly

Summary: A new word to learn is agglomeration; the trend toward increasing concentration of people and jobs in more centralized regions. North Carolina is seeing this as the major metropolitan areas,… 

Mar 19, 2019

First in Future: President and CEO of the NC East Alliance John Chaffee

Summary: This week’s First in Future guest, John Chaffee has a lifetime of stories about recruiting outside companies to relocate in eastern North Carolina. That’s what any economic developer does.… 

Mar 12, 2019

First in Future: Director of Growth and Communications RIoT Sarah Glova

Summary: In 1982, a revolution began very very quietly, when somebody figured out how to connect a drink machine to the then-fledgling Internet. The drink machine was able to signal… 

Mar 5, 2019

First in Future: Executive Director of AMEXCAN (The Association of Mexicans in North Carolina) Juvencio Rocha Peralta

Summary: In 1980, Juvencio Rocha Peralta became frustrated by the job opportunities in Veracruz Mexico, a town of about 500 people, so he took a big chance. At the age… 

Feb 12, 2019

First in Future: North Carolina State University Dr. Mitch Renkow

Summary: Research shows that whenever a new economic development project is announced as bringing in jobs to a country, less than half of those jobs go to residents of that county… 

Nov 27, 2018

First in Future: Senior Policy and Program Manager at the Institute for Emerging Issues Sarah Langer Hall

Summary:  The idea that the rural and urban parts of our state seemed to be getting further and further apart, and this is on the minds of North Carolinians. This… 

Sep 18, 2018

First in Future: NCSU Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Co-Director for Coastal Dynamics Design Lab Andrew Fox

Summary:  This week, our guest isn’t just a community builder, he’s also a community listener. We talk with Andy Fox, a landscape architect from NC State University’s College of Design and… 

Aug 7, 2018

First in Future: Founder and CEO of the Listen First Project Pearce Godwin

Summary: Just listen to someone else. Hear what they are saying. Recognize that other people see things from a different angle, and it changes the way we see things ourselves and…