In this week’s We Create Here: Venture capital in Iowa, difference between diversity and inclusion

Chad Simmons, Anthony Brown, Mary Swander, Jeff Albrights, Jennifer Y-Boyer and others help us explore big ideas this week over at We Create Here.

In diversity, community engagement manager Kiran Sood asks: What is the difference between diversity and inclusion? Are Corridor businesses both diverse and inclusive? She talks with Diversity Focus' Chad Simmons and Anthony Brown, and with area business  leaders like Jeff Albright, at ESP International and Jennifer Yi-Boyer at ACT about how embracing diversity has helped their bottom line. She also gives us the background on Iowa Poet Laureate Mary Swander's play "Vang."

Also this week, community engagement manager Sarah Binder brought us up to speed about what she's been learning about the state of entrepreneurship in the Creative Corridor and dug into the question of how we're doing in terms of Venture Capital in Iowa's Creative Corridor.

It's one thing to have a great idea. It can be another thing, entirely, to get that idea off the ground. That's why Chuck Peters is looking into how the Kirkwood Regional Centers are working and how they came to be.

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