{"id":18426,"date":"2025-08-01T16:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/region-9-gets-new-economic-development-coordinator\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:04:39","slug":"region-9-gets-new-economic-development-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/region-9-gets-new-economic-development-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Region 9 gets new economic development coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=dd043ba1-f560-5cd8-b708-c5894514b81f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Audrey Royem, a new economic development coordinator for Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado. (Region 9\/Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Audrey Royem, a new economic development coordinator for Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado. (Region 9\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A new economic development coordinator was announced Friday for Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey Royem is tied to Colorado through four generations and grew up in the Four Corners region, the announcement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAudrey will be working to support strong, vibrant communities across Southwest Colorado, and we\u2019re confident her leadership and experience will make a meaningful impact,\u201d the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>Royem has a master\u2019s degree from the prestigious School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>With a background spanning education, public policy and international development, Royem brings a breadth of experience to her new role with Region 9.<\/p>\n<p>To name just some of her past roles, according to her LinkedIn, Royem volunteered for the Peace Corps before going on to work for the United Nations. While in Mexico, she founded a Montessori school, ran a bed-and-breakfast and took on the position of a real estate executive.<\/p>\n<p>Royem is described as \u201cdeeply passionate about rural resilience, business growth, and inclusive economic planning\u201d in the announcement about her new role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is a fourth-generation Coloradan with a master\u2019s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-18426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20582,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426\/revisions\/20582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18426"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=18426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}