RFI Community Innovation Fellow | Melissa Garcia
Rural Futures Institute
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02/28/2017
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- [00:00:00.163]My name's Melissa Garcia with Black Hills Energy
- [00:00:02.975]and I'm a Community Affairs Manager there.
- [00:00:05.720]And the reason I'm so passionate about rural
- [00:00:08.403]is because I'm a product of rural.
- [00:00:10.857]It's a quality of life that I choose for myself
- [00:00:12.985]and my family,
- [00:00:14.333]and if I'm not being very intentional
- [00:00:16.679]about it's success today and tomorrow,
- [00:00:18.453]then those opportunities are not going to be there
- [00:00:19.957]for my children.
- [00:00:21.463]The Rural Futures Institute is incredibly important
- [00:00:23.923]for a lot of reasons.
- [00:00:25.654]And one is because agriculture and the rural lifestyle
- [00:00:29.419]is a huge piece of who we are.
- [00:00:31.497]And yet at the state level,
- [00:00:33.100]we have this incredible unicameral system
- [00:00:36.673]but it's essentially a house of representatives.
- [00:00:38.580]So, within that we really want to make sure that
- [00:00:41.120]we have a group that pulls us together
- [00:00:43.077]to synergize and think about innovation
- [00:00:46.009]and collection solutions that work for rural
- [00:00:48.226]so that together collectively we can be a
- [00:00:50.558]sounding board for solutions
- [00:00:52.566]that are shared across the state
- [00:00:53.862]and that that voice is heard.
- [00:00:55.710]I think RFI creates a platform for rural issues
- [00:01:01.065]and if you have a platform for rural issues,
- [00:01:02.935]you have a platform for rural solutions.
- [00:01:05.011]And that's incredibly important.
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