Season Two of Reimagine Rural podcast is coming soon

Season two of Reimagine Rural podcast debuts soon, with host Tony Pipa once again visiting small towns from coast to coast and collecting the stories of local leaders with a focus on how they’re trying to take advantage of major new opportunities available in today’s economy. That often means managing big public investments and dealing with outside interests, from renewable energy to new manufacturing to broadband and more.

In season two, Tony brings you a whole new set of stories from small town America on how local places are organizing themselves to ensure these investments lead to increased, good, and equitable rural prosperity.

BARLOW: I’m Beth Barlow and I’m the general manager at B&W trailer hitches in Humboldt, KS.

TURNHAM: My name is Joe Turnham and I’m the executive director of the Macon County Economic Development Authority.

VARGAS: My name is Anna Lisa Vargas, and I’m the lead community organizer here in the Coachella Valley with communities for new California Education Fund.

PIPA: Hi, I’m Tony Pipa, senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution. And this is season 2 of Reimagine Rural.

In season 1, I visited small towns and rural places from Shamokin, Pennsylvania, to Globe, Arizona, from Sunflower County, Mississippi, to Eagle Butte, South Dakota, and I talked with local civic, business, and community leaders about how they’re enacting positive change in their communities.

In this season, I’m once again visiting small towns from coast to coast and collecting the stories of local leaders but with a focus on how they’re trying to take advantage of major new opportunities available in today’s economy. That often means managing big public investments and dealing with outside interests. From renewable energy to new manufacturing to broadband and more, I’ll be bringing you a whole new set of stories from small town America on how local places are organizing themselves to ensure these investments lead to increased and equitable rural prosperity.

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