Emily Gowdey-Backus
Emily Gowdey-Backus joined Providence Business News as a staff writer in April 2016. She is a native of Connecticut and holds a Master’s Degree in international journalism from Cardiff University. Emily covers the education, workforce development, hospitality and tourism, and nonprofit beats for the newspaper.
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Does Rhode Island have right approach on food waste?
Tucked in a residential neighborhood of mostly rural Charlestown is the state’s largest commercial-scale compost-processing facility.
Second-generation Earth Care Farm owner Jayne Merner Senecal, whose...
In regulation, the small things add up fast
The pervasiveness of state-imposed regulations has been a topic of contention for years among the business community in Rhode Island.
“Manufacturing employers there are...
Isle Brewers Guild partners with JWU to offer online craft-brewing certificate
For a time, every old industrial complex, barn, music hall or former train station was ripe for the picking, as the fervor for craft...
Steel Yard announces $2.8M studio renovation
PROVIDENCE – Looking to increase the communal studio space available to local artists and the public, on Thursday The Steel Yard announced a $2.8...
2017 sees largest grant total in vBCF’s 32-year history
PROVIDENCE - At $10.7 million in grants, 2017 tops the van Beuren Charitable Foundation's 32-year history as the year in which the most funds...
Brown breaks giving record by $88M in fiscal 2018
PROVIDENCE – Annual fund donations from more than 32,000 donors and one of the largest gifts in Brown University's history helped the Ivy League...
UMass Dartmouth names Adams interim director of the Center for Innovation...
DARTMOUTH - Former World Energy Solutions CEO Phil Adams will serve as the interim director of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's Center for Innovation and...
Mancinis donate $200K to Patrucco scholarship fund at RIC
PROVIDENCE – The Dr. Armand Patrucco Endowed Scholarship Fund, which helps cover an in-state Rhode Island College student’s tuition for one year, received a...
Five Questions With: Gabrielle Baillargeon
A rising junior at Roger Williams University, Gabrielle Baillargeon was one of eight students from across the United States to win a research fellowship...
Trinity Rep closes 3rd season of plays in Spanish with July...
PROVIDENCE – Trinity Repertory Company announced its third season of Teatro en El Verano – theatrical plays put on in Spanish across the state...
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