The Arizona Association for Economic Development recently elected new members to its Board of Directors, representing metro and rural communities around the state. Chad Schleicher, senior business development manager at the Weitz Company, which is located at 2111 E. Highland Ave., and Kristen Howard, business developer with IMEG Corp., which has a location at 7878 N. 16th St., are among the new board members chosen to represent metro Arizona. They were recently elected to the board, along with Kristen Stephenson, senior vice president of research and analytics at the Greater Phoenix Economic Council; Suzanne Boyles, AZED Pro and economic development manager with the city of Buckeye; Jennifer Lindley, AZED Pro and downtown development manager at the town of Queen Creek and Amanda Bruno, project manager in the Office of Economic Initiatives at the City of Tucson.
Those continuing as advisors to the board of directors are Lydia Aranda, president of border communities at Chicanos Por La Causa Inc.; Russ Yelton, the founder and president of White Mountain Economic Development; Mackenzie Fitz-Gerald, an AZED Pro and economic development associate at Arizona Public Service (APS); Jamie Kerr, vice president of rural economic development at the Arizona Commerce Authority and Sarah Murley, principal at Applied Economics.
