Teresa Campo

I've been working in economic and community development for over 20 years. I joined the city of Monroe in 2017 as a community planner, which had community and economic development responsibilities. When the city took back their economic development activities, they created a new Office of Economic Development, and I was put over that as Director, a position I've held for a year now. As Economic Development Director, my job is to market our city and look at new industries to bring into our cities, and to manage and supervise the business retention and expansion program. A normal day for me is reaching out, finding out what the industry trends are, serving with the advisory board, keeping our city manager informed, and taking a lot of calls from site selectors and developers, bringing them into our community, and just sharing what services we have, keeping up on our resources, and making sure that we have the capacity and that we're getting that message across. We're a good jobs, great city - we were selected by the National League of Cities for the Academy through the partnership with them and the United States Department of Labor, and that opportunity we were able to bring over as our economic development. That's been really great for our Monroe Works, and I'm just excited about getting our people working and keeping our economy strong.