Media Coverage
Crain's Chicago Business
Industry Week: Production Pulse
February 22, 2024
Production Pulse: Manufacturing Talent in Underserved Communities. Erica Staley joins a panel to discuss what it takes to get young people from underserved communities into great manufacturing careers.
WTTW Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
February 26, 2022
Where Industry, Environment and Community Meet: Rethinking Chicago’s Manufacturing Future. Erica Staley joins Gina Ramirez and Teresa Cordova after Chicago’s Public Health Department rejected a permit for a metal shredding and recycling operation on the city’s Southeast Side.
Mavens of Manufacturing
February 25, 2022
MR’s Erica Staley shares her story and perspectives on what is needed to get more young people into manufacturing with Meaghan Ziemba.
WBEZ Chicago
June 24, 2021
David Robinson talks to WBEZ about the Industry and Inclusion 4.0 report by the Urban Manufacturing Alliance and The Century Foundation about the need for increasing racial diversity and inclusion in the manufacturing (segment just before half-way mark)
WTTW Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
March 27, 2021
Southeast Side Organizers Say Solution to Pollution Problem Includes Clean Industry Jobs –
Chicago Business Journal
March 19, 2021
Manufacturing Renaissance’s executive director named to Biden advisory committee
Crain's Chicago Business
WBEZ Chicago
October 28, 2019
The Manufacturing Mismatch: Manufacturing companies need workers. Chicago has plenty. But linking them together may require a regionally coordinated effort.
WBEZ Chicago
March 29, 2019
‘Don’t Quit, Just Call’: Chicago’s Young Manufacturers Are Banding Together To Navigate The Industry.
Forbes
January 28, 2019
Saving Manufacturing Jobs And Boosting Entrepreneurial Opportunity In Chicagoland.
Chicago Tribune
January 17, 2019
The boss is retiring. The kids don’t want to take over. Family-owned manufacturers confront a succession ‘crisis.’
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
October 10, 2018
On To 2050 Plan. A comprehensive regional plan to guide investments and priorities for the region. MR staff profiled in the plan
American Enterprise Institute
Austin Weekly News
June 1, 2017
Manufacturing’s dirty little secret? It works for residents seeking stable, high-skilled jobs, say leaders.
Austin Weekly News
Story Corps
February 25, 2016
Erica Swinney (39) and her father and boss Dan Swinney (71) discuss Dan’s history as a community organizer and labor force activist, and how that led to his current work in manufacturing education.