While a lot of the national spotlight gets pushed to the federal level, the state and local levels are arguable what impact American constituents and businesses more on the day to day.

Representative Joe Ciresi has dutifully served the 146th District in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 2018 and has made it a priority to create an effective, all inclusive job training pipeline from K-12 to the workforce.

Born in Long Island to two first generation Americans who had never gone to college, Rep. Ciresi learned at a young age the value of both encouraging vocational skills alongside expanding options to college. Prior to his election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, he served for nearly 20 years as the Director of Sales and Promotions at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts. In addition, he spent 11 years as a board member of the Western Montgomery Career and Technology Center, which provides trade or skill classes not offered at conventional four-year universities.

With things influencing the future of work like a rising gig economy, remote work, and a cultural emphasis on valuing desk based jobs, Rep. Ciresi’s experience in education, skill-based labor, and policy making put him in a great intersection to talk about how we can best support skill-based and frontline workers in our workforce.

So with that...let’s bring it in.