Program aims to place 1,000 Memphis-area veterans with local employers
Ted Townsend, president and CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber said the Chamber is partnering with a nonprofit dedicated to placing veterans into post-military careers. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
NextOp is expanding its workforce-training and education program to the Memphis area, which is home to about 46,000 working-age veterans and enlisted military.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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