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Dr. Martin Graduates from Delta Leadership Institute 

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CADIZ, Ky. — Dr. Brock Martin of Huntingdon is one of 25 new graduates from the Delta Leadership Institute (DLI) Executive Academy. The graduates now have the tools to support DRA’s efforts to create jobs, build communities, and improve lives across the Mississippi River Delta region and the Black Belt of Alabama.

The 25 graduates completed the ten-month DLI Executive Academy, a training program that brings together public, private and nonprofit-sector leaders from each of the eight states served by the DRA. The program equips participants with the tools, experiences and networks to help them create new economic opportunities in Delta communities and support the growth of the region’s economy.

“DLI is one of our most important tools for providing the Delta with the next generation of economic and community development leaders,” DRA Chairman Chris Caldwell said. “This group of graduates will take the experiences and lessons gleamed from the Executive Academy to be change agents in their communities.” The graduates participated in seven training sessions over the past year to educate them on the regional and local economic and community development best practices employed across the Delta to catalyze innovative solutions implementable in their own community and region.

DLI fellows learn from local, regional and national experts in infrastructure and transportation, small business and entrepreneurship, workforce training, public health and other fields necessary to facilitate economic growth in the Delta region.

Tennessee graduates include: Mr. Michael Banks, Brownsville, Attorney, Banks Law Firm, P.A.; Dr. Brock Martin, Huntingdon, Doctor of Chiropractic, Southern Chiropractic and Acupuncture;  Dr. Joey Mehlhorn, Martin, Parker Chair of Excellence, University of Tennessee at Martin; Ms. Katherine Milligan, Memphis, Chief of Staff, Start Co.; Mrs. Erica Plybeah Hemphill, Cordova, Founder & CEO, Medhaul, Clinical Informatics Project Manager, Memphis Bioworks Foundation.

Since 2005, DLI’s Executive Academy has enhanced the leadership skills, policy knowledge and networks of community members in the Delta region. After graduation, DLI graduates become members of the Delta Leadership Network, which includes more than 500 community leaders who understand the importance of regional collaboration, resource sharing and innovative thinking.

DLI is a program of DRA in partnership with three institutions of higher education in the Delta region: The University of Alabama, Arkansas State University-Jonesboro and the University of Louisiana Monroe.