Around Town

Around Town | Lauren Garduño

By Nick Bergfeld,

Published October 20, 2023 at 8:30 AM CDT

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Lauren D. Garduño - President/CEO at Ports-to-Plains Alliance

Lauren discusses his West Texas experiences and how he became a civil engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation.

He describes the significant role district engineers for TXDOT have in determining a community’s connectivity and his leadership efforts on the multi-state Ports-to-Plains initiative to bring better infrastructure to the High Plains and beyond.

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Nick Bergfeld

Nick is the Around Town host on Texas Tech Public Media, and a sustainable economic development consultant based on the High Plains. He graduated with his bachelors’ in biochemistry and psychology from Texas Tech University, and his medical doctorate from the Yale School of Medicine and master’s in public policy from Harvard’s School of Government. Nick can be found on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter @nickbergfeld.

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Chuck Luck

Radio producer at KTTZ-FM 89.1 in Lubbock, Texas for Texas Tech Public Media.

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