After spending several years serving as business and community development manager with MidAmerican Energy Co., Katie Lord joined the city of Grimes as its first economic development director on May 1.
Prior to her position …
Ten years after co-founding Bâton Global with Jeffrey Kappen, Matthew Mitchell has moved into the CEO role as the international strategy consulting firm looks toward its next phase of growth.
A fascination with the future …
Growing up in Iowa City, Catherine Johnson distinctly remembers watching Geraldo Rivera’s 1972 investigative documentary that exposed inhumane living conditions at Willowbrook State School, a facility for youths with intellectual disabilities in Staten Island, N.Y. …
The West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce announced it will invite alumni of its professional development program, YURtern, to celebrate the program’s seventh year. More than 1,300 student interns have been part of the program …
Dylan Mullenix is no stranger to the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, celebrating his 18th anniversary with the regional transportation entity this summer. He started with the MPO as a transportation planner and rose …
As a child, Jasmine Brooks’ playthings frequently included scrap pieces of lumber, nails, tape measures, hammers and other things used by her father to build or renovate houses.
The scrap lumber was used to make …
Art shouldn’t be intimidating. But for many people, it is.
Alexa McCarthy, the new executive director of the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation, said a goal of hers is to make art accessible to …
Ryan Crane considers his work with One Iowa to be the “coolest first job out of college and the coolest first job in Des Moines I could ever have.”
It was also Crane’s first experience …
Skylar Mayberry-Mayes gives a lot of credit to the board game Monopoly for initiating his career in finance and real estate. He said he wasn’t planning to attend college as he prepared to graduate from …
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