West Virginia’s Young Professionals Banding Together
Written by Jason Keeling on March 27, 2008
The West Virginia Young Leadership Conference is scheduled for April 23 in Morgantown. While retaining and attracting talented youth is a challenge for West Virginia, the movement to change such has been gaining momentum.
Young people across the state are coming together to expand business opportunities, build professional networks, and enhance the quality of life in their communities. Groups have been working separately in Huntington, Parkersburg, Charleston, Morgantown, Wheeling, and Martinsburg.
These local groups are now forming a statewide coalition referred to as Generation West Virginia, and the conference will serve as the official launch. If you’re interested in helping reverse the “brain drain,” check out the agenda and register by April 18.
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April 1st, 2008 at 10:33 pm
A rising star of West Virginia’s young professionals is Hillary Homberg, a dental student at WVU who maintains a blog related to Blenko Glass of Milton, West Virginia.
While you don’t cross-reference or promote any other blogs on your blog, I hope you and your readers also read:
http://media.herald-dispatch.com/blog/blenko/
Hillary truly represents the best of West Virginia.
Another super West Virginian is Internet poet, William F. Devault who hails from Morgantown, WV. His blog is:
http://cityoflegends.blogspot.com/
April 10th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
This is an outstanding opportunity for young leaders from across West Virginia to attend and get involved in advancing our state. They are anticipating at least 75 to 100 leaders from across the state to attend.
Check it out: http://www.generationwestvirginia.com