Full title:
The University of Alabama Center
for Economic Development
Staff
• Nisa Miranda, director
(second in UACED history)
• Lucas Blankenship, planning
and economic development
specialist
• Sally Brown, administrative
coordinator
• Candace C. Johnson,
tourism and community
development project manager
• Matthew Leavell, director of
Alabama Innovation Engine
• Linda Vice, director of
Southwest Alabama Tourism
and Film Office
• Bob Weber, research assistant
• Martha Whitson, special
projects
Founded: 1987
Scope:
To assist economically distressed
areas of the state with strategic
planning
Alliances on UA campus:
the Culverhouse College of
Commerce’s Center for Business
and Economic Research,
the Alabama International
Trade Center, the Alabama
Small Business Development
Center Network, the Alabama
Productivity Center, UA Safe
State, the UA Cartographic
Laboratory and the UA Office of
Archaeological Research
MEET UACED
