This Salt Lake City industry can support ‘intergenerational cycles of thriving,’ mayor says

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Salt Lake City hosted 'Human Innovation Day' Thursday and launched a website to connect residents to health sciences careers. “I did not realize that any of these companies existed, or that they had opportunities that are so available,” said one student.

industry conference at the Salt Palace, the students were submersed in a world of robots and lab coats.

“In Salt Lake City, we have a very real divide in access to the good things — the growth and the great jobs that are happening here, and I’m done with it. We should be totally intolerant of these divides continuing.” The students also heard from Atim Atte Enyenihi, an analytical chemist at Recursion. Born in Nigeria, she moved to the Caribbean as a child and was undereducated. But when she got to a high school in the United States, a teacher mentored her.

Ryan Kelly, chief communications officer for Recursion, said a diverse workforce is a high priority for the company. It has specific hiring goals for gender parity and underrepresented groups. “From our perspective, that’s an initiative we want to encourage at Recursion.”

 

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For like the first few years of rapid growth, yes. Thereafter, it’s the Grapes of Wrath/Silicon Valley playing out all over again.

I hope they aren’t homeless.

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