by Tracey Bryan | Aug 16, 2019 | Blog
Stephen Gabaldon, Sara Duran-Campbell, and Dolores Millan piloted the first teacher externships in Dona Ana County. As published in the Las Cruces Bulletin Partnership continues to drive innovative ways to better connect education to employment for students in Doña...
by Tracey Bryan | Aug 5, 2019 | Press Releases
LAS CRUCES, NM – Newly announced investments in The Bridge of Southern New Mexico from two of its most-committed funders will support first-of-their-kind partnership projects underway with the Gadsden and Las Cruces districts. El Paso Electric recently awarded The...
by Tracey Bryan | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog
As published in the Las Cruces Sun-News Doña Ana County leads the state in mapping out holistic career pathways for people to find their way to well-paid careers right here in our community and for mapping the relationships between our education, workforce and...
by Tracey Bryan | Jul 19, 2019 | Blog
As published in the Las Cruces Bulletin Three years ago, I was thrilled to return to the work of The Bridge of Southern New Mexico and in the state that I loved. In no way could I have envisioned how our community’s amazing work would play such an enormous role in the...
by Tracey Bryan | Jul 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
As published in The Bottom Line of the Las Cruces Bulletin It’s always great to come home to the Chamber…it truly is the birthplace of The Bridge of Southern New Mexico! In 2007, legendary Las Cruces leader Patsy Duran began a conversation in the Chamber’s Education...
by Tracey Bryan | Jul 1, 2019 | Blog
As published in the Las Cruces Sun-News Workforce is the single greatest asset driving success for any company. Many have used the phrase, “I’m not in the _________ business, I’m in the people business.” Attracting, hiring, and cultivating a diverse, well-qualified...
by Tracey Bryan | Jun 21, 2019 | Blog
As published in the Las Cruces Bulletin For the past decade, Doña Ana County has been at the forefront of proving the power of collaboration in our state, with cross-sector groups like The Bridge of Southern New Mexico and Ngage uniting the collective assets of the...
by Tracey Bryan | May 17, 2019 | Blog
As published in the Las Cruces Bulletin There is no issue more important to our county’s economic wellbeing than that of workforce development. It’s an intricate and all-encompassing issue that almost all communities talk about it, but few have been able to wrap their...
by Tracey Bryan | May 6, 2019 | Blog
As published in the Las Cruces Sun-News May 10 was a history-making day for Doña Ana County and the rest of New Mexico when Sir Richard Branson and the team from Virgin Galactic came with the news that they were moving operations for the first-ever commercial...
by Tracey Bryan | May 6, 2019 | Blog
As published in the Las Cruces Sun-News Just how much do we invest in workforce development in New Mexico, and how do we get the most bang for our buck? That’s a question I left Washington, D.C. with after attending the US Chamber of Commerce’s Talent Forward...