WEKU Covers KSEC Solutions Spotlight on Appalachia's Tech Industry

WEKU covered the KSEC Just Transition Working Group's Solutions Spotlight on Appalachia's growing tech industry. For this Spotlight, Shawn Lind of Appalshop’s new Mines to Minds Program and Izzy Broomfield from Mountain Tech media spoke to how they see this new industry playing a role in a just, economic transition and how young people can prepare themselves for careers in technology without having to leave the region. 

The Solution's Spotlights are part of the JTWG's bigger project, The Solutions Tour, an effort to ensure that youth voices are a part of the discussion around economic transition, that young people know how to engage in economic decision making in their communities, and to show that people are already forging their own paths towards a diversified economy in Central Appalachia. 

Excerpt from ​"SE Ky Meetings Aim to Help Workers Move into Tech Jobs:"

The Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition is sponsoring the Solution Spotlight sessions. 
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Coalition organizer Tracy Blevins says part of the meeting's focus was bridging the gap between training and working in the tech industry “We explored some of the current growth in the tech industry that’s happening in the region and there was also an emphasis on building your skills and creating your own opportunities in that industry.”