April 22, 2024 · News

The Alabama of the future: A Q&A with the woman leading the state’s ambitious effort to build an innovation economy

As the CEO of Innovate Alabama, Cynthia Crutchfield carries with her a virtue she learned from her parents, that “all things are possible” for the people of the state where she was born and raised. Part of that lesson, Crutchfield learned early on, was ignoring — and proving wrong — the people who don’t share the same principles.

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The Alabama of the future: A Q&A with the woman leading the state’s ambitious effort to build an innovation economy