Emily Gowdey-Backus, Author at Providence Business News

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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. Photo Credit: Love & Perry Photography

Stack to head Champlin Foundation come June

Nonprofit 04/16/2018

CRANSTON - The next executive director of the Champlin Foundation will be Nina Stack, the nonprofit agency announced Monday. Stack, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan...

AT FRIDAY'S TOURISM STUDY COMMISSION MEETING, it was confirmed that Newport's contract with short-term rental property monitoring software company Host Compliance was extended. Rep. Lauren H. Carson, D-Newport, the committee's head, sits at the center of the back row. / PBN PHOTO/EMILY GOWDEY-BACKUS

Newport extends host compliance contract for three years

Economic Activity 04/13/2018

PROVIDENCE – At the April Tourism Study Commission meeting, held Friday at the Statehouse, it was confirmed that Newport had re-upped its contract with...

PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO / BUILDING SKILLS: The Dean Hotel in Providence recently enrolled some of its employees in a Core Skills Partnership program funded by a Real Pathways Rhode Island grant from the Governor’s Workforce Board. From left, Aarin Clemons, general manager; Hector Melendez, lead houseman; and Janet Norena, room attendant.

Bespoke workforce-development sessions satisfy employers, for now

Education 04/13/2018

For Aarin Clemons, managing downtown Providence’s The Dean Hotel – what he called “a hotel for Providence by Providence” – means employing people of...

JULIE PLAUT has been hired by Brown University to fill the newly created assistant dean of the college and director of faculty engagement and research position. / COURTESY BILL CLEMENTS

Brown hires Plaut as assistant dean and director of faculty engagement

Education 04/13/2018

PROVIDENCE – Starting this month, Julie Plaut has been hired by Brown University to fill the newly created assistant dean of the college and...

OLIVIA TOURONY is a junior studying accounting at Johnson & Wales University. Earlier this year she received a $10,000 Public Company Accounting Oversight Board scholarship. / COURTESY JWU

Five Questions With: Olivia Tourony

Education 04/13/2018

A junior at Johnson & Wales University, Olivia Tourony is a resident of Douglas, Mass., and is studying in the accounting department. Earlier this...

LARS ERICKSON, an associate professor of French and director of the French International Engineering Program at the University of Rhode Island, will be named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the government of France at a ceremony later this spring at the Consulate General of France in Boston. / COURTESY URI/NORA LEWIS

French government honors University of Rhode Island professor

Education 04/13/2018

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Under the tenure of Lars Erickson, associate professor of French and director of the French International Engineering Program at the University...

GOYA FOODS has donated 40,032 pounds of food to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank as part of its corporate "Can Do" campaign. From left, Hector Vasquez from Goya Foods; Lisa Roth Blackman, chief philanthropy officer with the Rhode Island Community Food Bank; Luke DiMeo from Shaw’s Cranston at Chapel View; and Jose Henriquez and Pedro Moya from Goya Foods. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK

Goya donates 40K pounds of food to Rhode Island Community Food...

Nonprofit 04/13/2018

PROVIDENCE – As part of its corporate “Can Do” campaign, Goya Foods Inc., based in Webster, Mass., donated 40,032 pounds of food to the...

BANK RHODE ISLAND staff, volunteers and representatives from Books Are Wings with the more than 3,200 children’s books collected during the bank’s eighth annual book drive. Held throughout March in recognition of national reading awareness month, the effort has now generated more than 17,500 books since its inception in 2011. / COURTESY BANKRI

Bank Rhode Island donates 3,252 books to Books Are Wings

Financial Services 04/13/2018

PROVIDENCE – During its eighth annual monthlong book drive in March, customers and staff of Bank Rhode Island’s 20 in-state branches donated more than...

EIGHT RHODE ISLAND-BASED nonprofit organizations will share $140,000 of the $1.5 million recently donated nationwide by Citizens Bank to increase financial literacy. From left, Keith Kelly, president, Citizens Bank Rhode Island; Tony Maione, CEO, United Way of Rhode Island; Barbara Cottam, head of corporate affairs, Citizens Bank; and R.I. Treasurer Seth Magaziner. / COURTESY CITIZENS BANK

8 local nonprofits benefit from Citizens financial literacy campaign

Financial Services 04/13/2018

PROVIDENCE – In an effort to increase financial literacy in the Ocean State, eight Rhode Island-based nonprofit organizations will share $140,000 of the $1.5...

HOSPITALITY PROFESSIONALS AND RHODE ISLANDERS who helped to bring meetings and sporting event business to the Ocean State celebrate Global Meetings Industry Day at the Providence Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau Ambassador award ceremony. PWCVB President and CEO Martha Sheridan (in black) and R.I. Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea (in blue) are in the center of the front row. / COURTESY PWCVB

Nine honored by PWCVB for economic contribution

Economic Activity 04/12/2018

PROVIDENCE – At the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau annual Ambassador awards, held Thursday, nine Rhode Islanders were honored for their revenue- generating...

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