About Livingston Business and Education Alliance

“Intern Livingston” is an exciting initiative created by the “Livingston Business and Education Alliance (LBEA)”. The alliance seeks to provide value-added internships for high school and college students and retrained workers.

The LBEA is the result of creative strategizing by Bill Sleight, Director of the Livingston County Workforce Development Council and Dr. Timothy Jackson, Director of the Livingston Applied Technology Education Consortium (LATEC), who together, identified the need to better connect business and education to “keep local talent local”. The LBEA is comprised of business leaders from various industries and chambers of commerce, high school representatives, colleges from the Livingston Higher Education Network, and Workforce Development Council members.

LBEA members are enthusiastic about the potential of Intern Livingston to provide meaningful experiences for students and retrained workers and to provide businesses with assistance on special projects, and possible future employees (“keeping local talent local”)!

“The mission of the Livingston Business and Education Alliance is to foster collaboration to keep local talent local.”

• The vision of the Livingston Business and Education Alliance is to create a culture of educational and industry support in which educators and business leaders routinely engage in creative dialogue and planning.
• Livingston County economic growth and development is enhanced.
• Businesses gain talented and skilled employees.
• Educational opportunities for students and retrained workers are expanded.
• Active and mutual support of internships, work experience, and other forms of life-long learning is evidenced.