With Alejandra Castillo, US Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development

In this episode, Dane talks with Alejandra Castillo, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development and the head of the Economic Development Administration.

We discuss:

• Ms. Castillo's background and how she became the country's chief economic developer
• The Economic Development Administration and the US Commerce Department
• The Build Back Better Regional Challenge
• Supply chains
• Worker training and workforce development
• Regional, cluster-based, and place-based economic development
• Infastructure
• Building capacity at the local level
• Recovery and resiliency in your local community
• Making your community more competitive globally
• Collaboration in economic development, and who the EDA collaborates
• What the EDA is doing to promote diversity, equity and inclusion

• U.S. Economic Development Administration
• Funding Opportunities | U.S. Economic Development Administration
• EDA And Disaster Recovery | U.S. Economic Development Administration
• U.S. Economic Development Administration Newsletter