CITIZEN TRIBUNE — Marie Pflipsen ’14, the City of Becker’s Community Development Director, was recently chosen to participate in the inaugural Minnesota Young American Leaders Program to be held on the University of Minnesota campus in late November.
The goal of the program is for participants to gather and share knowledge regarding the state and trajectory of regional and national economic development, learn and practice tools of cross-sector collaboration and establish a network of new relationships. The curriculum will be based on research done by the Harvard Business School regarding American competitiveness and shared prosperity.
Because Pflipsen oversees the city’s day-to-day tasks within planning and zoning, long range planning and economic development efforts, the workshop comes at an opportune time as Becker’s leaders work to transition and diversify the local economy.
“Part of the program is focused on how to better our economy, both locally and regionally,” says Pflipsen, who has been with the city since March of 2016. “I envision this focus area of the program to be beneficial with the City’s current economic development efforts.”
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Pflipsen earned her bachelors degree in Planning and Community Development from St. Cloud State University.
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