Flum named executive director of Economic Progress Institute

RACHEL FLUM has been named executive director of the Economic Progress Institute, replacing Kate Brewster. In this portrait taken this summer when she was named one of PBN's 40 Under Forty, she holds portraits of her children along with a poster of some of the work she did last year for the EPI. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI
RACHEL FLUM has been named executive director of the Economic Progress Institute, replacing Kate Brewster. In this portrait taken this summer when she was named one of PBN's 40 Under Forty, she holds portraits of her children along with a poster of some of the work she did last year for the EPI. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PROVIDENCE – Rachel Flum has been named executive director of the nonprofit Economic Progress Institute, replacing Kate Brewster, who is leaving to lead the Jonnycake Center in South Kingstown’s Peace Dale section.
Flum is the senior policy analyst for the Economic Progress Institute, a job she has held for 10 years.

“We’re pleased that such a strong leader, with a wealth of knowledge about the issues facing Rhode Islanders, was available on the EPI staff,” Alan Flam, secretary of the institute’s board and head of the search committee, said in a statement. “Rachel has shown the commitment, talent and vision to lead this organization into the future.”

Brewster has been in the executive director position for 11 years at EPI. The Jonnycake Center is a community-based organization that provides food and clothing for local residents.

“It is with tremendous mixed emotions that I leave the institute, an organization that has had a lasting and profound impact on the ability of Rhode Islanders to make ends meet,” Brewster said in a statement. “I am excited to start a new chapter of helping to make sure that people in my local community don’t go to school or to bed hungry.”

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