Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people.

Today's episode features an interview with Joanna Helms and Dr.Patricia Mitchell, from NCEDA.

They talk to Ben Kinney about their roles and the very important work they're doing at NCEDA. The NCEDA Foundation was created in 2020 to advance the economic development profession, enhance the knowledge and skills of economic developers, and strengthen the broad, statewide economic development community in North Carolina through funding professional development activities, research, and education programs, especially to underserved, distressed, and rural counties and economic developers across North Carolina.