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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Five Questions With Oliver Dow
Oliver Dow | Managing director, Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre
1. The theater company last year signed a lease to occupy the former Ocean State Theatre in...
UMass Law student enters Rappaport Fellows Program
DARTMOUTH – University of Massachusetts School of Law student Kayla Venckauskas was selected as a 2018 fellow in the Rappaport Fellows Program in Law...
Five Questions With: Tiffany Bumgardner-Scheffler
Tiffany Bumgardner-Scheffler is the chief operating officer and director of field service for the Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of America. She is...
Ocean State Job Lot donates $50,000 to ‘Supporting Those Who Served’
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Ocean State Job Lot has donated $50,000 to “Supporting Those Who Served,” a joint program in support of veterans launched by...
Washington Trust brings back beach cleanup day
PROVIDENCE – In the second annual iteration of the event, The Washington Trust Co. will host its statewide beach cleanup day on April 22,...
Rogers Williams University opens new financial-education center
BRISTOL – A new Center for Advanced Financial Education at Roger Williams University has been launched with the help of a $182,000 donation from...
RIF hires Díaz-Jusino as strategic initiative officer for economic security
PROVIDENCE – Tasked with leading the Rhode Island Foundation’s activities and grant-making for economic security, Carmen Díaz-Jusino was announced April 17 as a strategic...
After revision, R.I. unemployment rate ticks back to 4.5%
PROVIDENCE – While the February seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was revised to 4.6 percent from 4.5 percent, per a Thursday R.I. Department of Labor...
Numbers related to RI Promise cohort’s successes ‘encouraging’
WARWICK – The Rhode Island Promise scholarship program inception during the 2017-18 academic year has been accompanied by a 240 percent year-over-year increase in first-time,...
PC School of Business receives five-year accreditation renewal
PROVIDENCE - A five-year accreditation extension has been awarded to Providence College's School of Business Tuesday by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of...
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