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Virginia Film Festival Director Jody Kielbasa discusses the logistics of this year’s all-online programming.

Julie Vu Whitaker and her restaurant, Vu Noodles, find a home— for the third time.

How Live Arts pulled off a tremendous fundraising campaign, and its plan to “forge ahead.”

Black- and minorityowned businesses get some financial relief in a time of need.

Jason McLeod Jewelry’s newest product—an extravagant goldand-silver mask with a price tag to match— documents a strange time.

Through her startup RevArt, Patti Pan seeks to make the worlds of business and art more compatible.

Local music venues aren’t quite rocking and rolling yet; rather, they’re inching toward reopening.

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hose who work in business can tell you that success requires hard work, adaptation, and some smiles from fate. Julie Vu Whitaker, founder and driving force behind Vu Noodles, can attest to all three. In 2013, after 20 years as a social worker, Whitaker decided on a career shift. “[While] I still loved it, I was ready for a change,” she says. From childhood, she enjoyed cooking and sharing foods from her Vietnamese heritage, and she credits her immigrant family (they arrived in Waynesboro when Whitaker was 8) with instilling a strong work ethic: “My family has always been in their own business.” She began selling Vu Noodles, her “to-go” take on traditional Vietnamese vegetable bowls, at The Farm corner grocery in Belmont. “It really opened my eyes,” she says. “People liked my food.” Vu Noodles’ popularity led Whitaker to get her home kitchen commercially certified so she could supply vendors around town, from Whole Foods Market to Rebecca’s Natural Food and Martha Jefferson Hospital’s café. After three years working long hours—her bowls are prepared fresh every day—Whitaker says she needed some help. “I was thinking, ‘I can’t keep doing this alone.’” She jumped at the opportunity to take over The Spot on Second Street in partnership with Kathy Zentgraf of Greenie’s. Demand soon meant the business had outgrown Whitaker’s home kitchen, so she struck a deal with Pearl Island Catering to rent the kitchen at the Jefferson School City Center and supply the café there. “Now I had a sit-down space, and could interact more with the customers, which I loved,” she recalls. But sharing the kitchen with Pearl Island’s growing business began to bind. By late 2019, Whitaker was considering the new Dairy Market, which would have meant taking on significant debt. “I’d always been able to fund my business myself,” she says. Enter another opportunity: Early this year Whitaker got an offer to take over The Flat Creperie’s space—right off the Downtown Mall, with its own kitchen, and small enough for Whita-

ker to handle with help from her husband and two sons, now in high school. In another smile from fate, in May the United Way of Greater Charlottesville and the city’s Minority Business Alliance announced the first grants under a new partnership to help support local minority- and women-owned small businesses. One of the $5,000 grants went to Vu Noodles, although Whitaker had to be convinced by a friend to even apply. “I always feel that someone else needs the money more,” she says. The timing was perfect. The grant (and the pandemic shutdown) enabled

Julie Vu Whitaker left her career as a social worker to start a vegan Vietnamese kitchen. Despite the pandemic, her new location is off to a flying start.

Whitaker to renovate the kitchen and install a microphone for contactless ordering before opening in July. Starting up at a new location while downtown foot traffic is just recovering is a challenge, but over the years Vu Noodles has developed a sizable and devoted following. Whitaker’s offerings now include pho and banh mi sandwiches as well as her noodle bowls, and are all completely vegan— except for one important holdout. “I had to keep the fish sauce,” she says with a smile. “It’s so much a part of our food tradition.”

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THE PITCH > BLACK BUSINESS

Lending a hand Black-owned businesses get some relief

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hen the pandemic struck, “it was like somebody just snatched a chair from under us,” says Jeanetha Brown-Douglas, owner of JBD Event Catering & Soul Food. “It was like having a business one day, and having no business the next day.” Inspired by her grandmother, BrownDouglas first got into the food industry nearly 30 years ago, when she began working with UVA Dining. She later opened up a fried chicken stand in front of the Sunshine Mini Mart on Cherry Avenue, and it was a hit. This led her to sign up for business classes at Piedmont Virginia Community College and for a program at the

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Community Investment Collaborative, which helped her to launch her own catering business. “We did a lot of catered events and had a lot of contracts with various places in Charlottesville,” such as the University of Virginia, she says. “We got our name out there...and got really known.” In 2018, Brown-Douglas was finally able to open her own eatery in Belmont, where customers no longer had to wait for a catered event to enjoy her homecooked meals. But when COVID rendered large events impossible and forced everyone to stay inside, the shop went quiet. The pandemic has hammered the economy, and local Black business owners like Brown-Douglas have felt the effects. Not only have many struggled

Lawrence Johnson, owner of Larry’s Barber Shop, says business has been “slow but steady” since the shop reopened.

to receive government assistance, but “being a Black-owned business is a challenge in itself,” she says. Thankfully, some relief has arrived. JBD Catering is one of six minorityowned businesses in the Charlottesville area to receive a $3,000 fully forgivable loan from the Virginia 30 Day Fund’s partnership with the United Way of Greater Charlottesville. These loans are being dispensed after previous government initiatives to keep small businesses afloat have failed—this is the first financial assistance JBD has received. While the loans don’t have to be repaid, awardees are encouraged to “pay it forward,” and donate money to the fund when they’re back on their feet. That money will be distributed to another struggling small business in Virginia, according to entrepreneur Pete Snyder, who co-founded the Charlottesvillebased fund with his wife. After learning he’d been awarded a loan, Lawrence Johnson, owner of Larry’s Barber Shop, breathed a huge sigh of relief. He hadn’t received unemployment benefits, or any other financial relief since shuttering his shop. Instead, he had to use money from his savings to cover his expenses. Since reopening during the second week of June, business has been “slow but steady,” says Johnson. “Some people are still afraid to come out, [especially] the older customers.” Johnson has owned his business, now located on Goodman Street, for the past 10 years. He plans to use the $3,000 to pay his bills, and purchase additional sanitation supplies. He’d also like to do more advertising, and hopefully bring in new customers. “I am very thankful for this opportunity,” he says. Brown-Douglas has also had trouble keeping things going over the past few months. All of her catering gigs were canceled as soon as the pandemic hit, and because her eatery planned on moving, it was difficult to remain open for takeout. “We had to literally shut down and start from scratch,” she says. “But I’m glad for that time, because it gave us a chance to really think about what direction we were going to take our business in.”

THE PITCH > FASHION

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ason McLeod’s artisan jewelry career path was informed by car crashes. Back in the early aughts, McLeod was living in Oakland, California, and running an advertising and graphic design business when a pair of back-to-back fender benders laid him up long-term in the hospital. He needed something to fill the hours, and “I just started making jewelry as a way to keep my hands and my mind busy,” McLeod says. But when he saw the enthusiasm his uniquely designed rings and necklaces generated, he realized his hobby had the potential to become a business.

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To help keep the lights on, Brown- Douglas and her daughter, Dejua, who helps run JBD, provided dinners to guests at a Salvation Army shelter (the meals were paid for by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church). Meanwhile, she applied for a range of grants, but did not have any luck until she received a phone call from Snyder last week. “It’s been a really trying time for us,” says Brown-Douglas. “A lot of times, they don’t turn you down. They just say they’re out of money, or they’ve had so many applications they had to cut it off at a certain point. With the amount of people, it’s just like playing the lottery.” “It really can break your spirit,” she adds. “[So] it was just a blessing to have that phone call, and actually feel like somebody cares.” She plans to use the loan to “expand our inventory and safety equipment,” which she will need to reopen this month at her new location on Second Street, for both dine-in and takeout. When it becomes safe to do so, BrownDouglas will also open up the space for events, such as parties and meetings, which will include on-site catering. “We do have the ability to do outside seating, and we also have a lot of space [inside] to spread our customers out, so they’ll be comfortable and safe at the same time,” she says. Through its partnership with the United Way, the Virginia 30 Day Fund plans to distribute at least $76,000 more in forgivable loans to minority-owned businesses and early education centers in Charlottesville and Albemarle.

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Jeweler Jason McLeod likes to meld the past with the future in his unique designs. The Time Traveler Shamanic Mask is one example of taking technology and bling to a dramatic, pandemic-influenced level.

In the ensuing years, McLeod and his wife moved to Charlottesville and he displayed his metalwork at East Coast art shows, developing his brand and honing his craft, eventually setting up shop in an Allied Lane office space. McLeod has established himself as a local artisan whose work has a unique, speculative twist. His online store is filled with Singularity pendants and Time Traveler rings, intricate creations as otherworldly as their names suggest. The goal, McLeod says, is to create products that “look like they’re from the past and the future.” He’s succeeded with the newest product on his site: the Time Traveler Shamanic Mask. The fully functional mask is decked out with 18-karat gold and black silk, and comes with a leather strap. It’s a steampunk fantasy—but at $20,020, it might exceed the typical cosplay budget. The price, of course, is a tongue-incheek reference to this year and its unprecedented events, without which this mask would never have been created. McLeod says he might be willing to negotiate on its cost, but hopes a wealthy someone will pay full price. “It’s part of the package,” he says. McLeod also emphasizes that, should his mask find a buyer, the profits will go to a “coronavirus medical expense relief charity,” giving the project a “Robin Hood purpose.” Whether or not the first mask sells, McLeod plans to create more—maybe even a series. Future design ideas include tear gas-resistant goggles, he says, to remain “applicable to 2020.” But if the Time Traveler Shamanic Mask is any indication, he won’t be abandoning his signature aesthetic. On the mask’s two respirators, McLeod inserted golden versions of the earth and the sun—specifically, its corona. (Get it?) Across the silver surface, he’s etched tiny stars and other celestial symbols. The celestial, global aspect is what initially inspired McLeod to make the mask. “Part of what’s really amazing about this quarantine pandemic thing is that it’s brought out the…global group organism,” he says. “The macro, not the micro.” And yet McLeod’s own celestial path finds him in the business of sculpting those big ideas into a small, wearable piece of art.

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THE PITCH > ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Creative financing Patti Pan’s RevArt deals with the serious business of art By Dan Goff

“Awaiting” by Tomie Deng is an example of the work included in Patti Pan’s RevArt, a Darden 2020 VentureLab startup that connects artists with commerce for a mutually enriching experience.

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rt and business aren’t the most compatible concepts—some might even consider them diametrically opposed. Connections exist, however, and Patti Pan is seeking to find and expand upon them with her startup RevArt, a “global platform connecting artists” with commercial brands and with each other. Pan, a 2020 graduate of UVA’s Darden School of Business, was thinking about RevArt even before attending grad school. Prior to moving to Charlottesville, she worked in Hong Kong, where she helped develop plans for a large shopping mall. The team installed an art gallery within the space, so that “people could shop and enjoy the artwork together.” When Pan saw the enormous success of the mall, which she says brought in 120,000 customers daily, she started thinking about the common threads between art and commercialism. Pan wants to give a home to the creatives who need it most, she says, and who might not know much about the business aspect of the industry. “I want to disrupt the industry and make the art world more like democracy,” Pan says. To serve this mission, RevArt’s clients tend to be emerging, rather than established artists. “Business is a pain for [artists],” she says. “They like creation…but they also want to make a living.” That’s where RevArt comes in. The startup handles IP licensing for its clients and helps them make commercial connections. Really, Pan says, the goal is to expose inexperienced artists to a profitability they might not otherwise reach. “The whole IP licensing market grows 10 percent every year. People don’t know that.” The business is still young enough that something as drastic as the pandemic could potentially cripple it—but Pan says that hasn’t been the case. In her words,

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COVID-19 creates “the perfect artist lifestyle. I don’t mean that COVID-19 is a good thing, but it’s just super comfortable for artists…they can focus on creation.” While her clients might be producing at a greater rate than usual, Pan concedes that the pandemic has certainly slowed the growth of RevArt and made communication more difficult. Artists based both in Charlottesville and in Hong Kong (where the startup’s two office spaces are located) have asked Pan to come to their studios in person as opposed to virtual visits. “People hate Zoom!” she says. She uses the necessary shift to technology to focus more on RevArt’s potential “digital assets. People…are social animals. We still want to see the artwork. How to leverage technology to accomplish that—that’s the new challenge for me.”

Pan hopes that making artwork more available online will also have the effect of broadening its audience, a goal that returns her to the idea of “democracy.” The art industry, she says, is “very far away” from day-to-day life. “It’s being controlled by a few groups of very wealthy people. We want to make it more accessible to ordinary people.” All of these plans are for further down the line. For now, RevArt’s main goal is that of any small business during difficult times: “to survive.” It’s hard enough for a startup to make it in a “normal” economy, Pan says. She mentions her Darden peers taking Wall Street or consulting jobs rather than striking out on their own, but stresses that the security isn’t worth it to her. “I’m spending my savings to do this. But I want to do this, and I see value.”

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THE PITCH > FILM

On the small screen In a tough year, film festival will move online

ody Kielbasa not only directs the Virginia Film Festival, he oversees the multi-disciplinary world of the arts—including theater, museums, and musical performances—as UVA’s vice provost for the arts. We asked him how the all-important artist-audience connections are faring in this extraordinary year.—Erika Howsare

What will the film festival look like this year? We’re going to present a virtual film festival with the vast majority of screenings and conversations online. You will be able to unlock screenings and view films within a time period, and we will be hosting a number of prerecorded and live discussions around those films. A silver lining is it might be easier to engage top industry experts— actors, producers, directors—for conversations, because all of these creatives can do this from home. This year we’ll screen 50-55 feature length films and offer programs of

shorts, so the festival will be roughly half the size. We feel that if there’s too much it will overwhelm our audience. We hope to do a drive-in series and that will be one way of bringing our community in a shared but socially distanced way. Will the programming respond to the pandemic or other events of 2020? I don’t want to overly program to the pandemic. Will we have two or three films that touch upon this? Absolutely. Am I going to have a big fanatic program around it? No. We will continue to address issues that the Black Lives Matter movement focuses on: social justice, civil rights. That’s important to us as an organization. If anybody looks closely at the program over the last 12 years, there’s a clear through-line of films focusing on civil rights. The festival will also focus on other issues in contemporary politics. The election is 12 days after the festival. What’s been the financial impact on the arts at UVA this year? The financial impact is huge, particularly for public-facing programs. If you can’t present a program it’s hard to sell tickets. Many companies that sponsor

“I DON’T WANT TO OVERLY PROGRAM TO THE PANDEMIC. WILL WE HAVE TWO OR THREE FILMS THAT TOUCH UPON THIS? ABSOLUTELY. AM I GOING TO HAVE A BIG FANATIC PROGRAM AROUND IT? NO.” JODY KIELBASA

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C-BIZ: How are the arts at UVA responding to 2020? JK: Art is being produced—it’s just a little more difficult to share it and engage an audience directly. Our museums, and a lot of our creatives, have turned to virtual programming. In some respects, some of the art and creative efforts have become more accessible because they’re online and open to everybody, and free in most cases. On the other hand, one of the great things about art is that shared experience, the visceral feeling, seeing, touching. And that, at the moment, has changed.

Jody Kielbasa, director of the Virginia Film Festival, says the virtual format this year could mean artists and creatives are more accessible than in the past.

cultural events are under duress as well, so it’s a very difficult time out there. First and foremost my goal is to keep our workers, staffs, creatives together and employed, and then stay true to our mission of presenting art to the best of our abilities. I think there are a number of people out there who don’t want to see these organizations wither or go defunct. Wish us luck!

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Always on stage Through COVID-19, Live Arts does more than stay alive By Erika Howsare

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hen the pandemic arrived in March, Live Arts closed its doors in the midst of the three-week run of Men On Boats. That disappointment soon opened into a bigger problem: a $410,000 budget shortfall resulting from canceled shows (and, thus, loss of ticket sales). Executive Director Anne Hunter says the organization faced an existential choice: “We could hunker down or forge ahead. We chose the latter.” The shortfall represented nearly half of Live Arts’ annual budget. Hunter says that several factors, including pay cuts, reduced rent, and a federal PPP loan, helped soften the blow. Still, the community theater mainstay faced dire straits unless it could raise significant cash by the end of the fiscal year. “In order to close that income gap, we needed to launch a campaign, and we called it the Forging Ahead campaign,” says Hunter—a reference to Live Arts’ tagline, “Forging theater and community.” Striking a bold, optimistic tone was key. “In the beginning everyone was focused on recovery. [But] nobody wants to fund recovery, they want to fund the future. We went into a more forward-thinking stance.” This meant looking ahead to 202021, which happens to be Live Arts’ 30th anniversary season. The campaign garnered nearly $171,000 from more than 800 donors. “That is credited to the community that helped us do that,” Hunter says, adding that the largest donation was $10,000. A month-long celebration of past productions, broadcast on Facebook in May as the 30in30 festival, brought in more than $50,000.

“That was a very interactive kind of experience which we had never imagined,” says Hunter, rattling off more numbers: 13,100 viewers total, with around 400 per evening leaving comments online. “That teed us up and gave us more confidence that we could do online programming that people would come to and was highly engaging.” She says the coming season will be different than any in Live Arts’ history. “We assume that the building would be closed to the public at least through December,” she says, “and all fall and winter programming will be online,” streaming live. She hopes to move into hybrid programming by spring, and modified but in-person camps and education by next summer. A teen musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, was slated for live outdoor performance at IX Art Park in mid-August but ended up moving entirely online, from auditions to performance. Hunter’s take on this, too, is relentlessly optimistic. “It [was] performed live by young actors on Zoom,” she explains. “That’s an experiment in how we will do live production in the year to come. It’s a perfect opportunity to see what could be done.” Hunter says the new season will highlight local playwrights, and will be supported by new sponsorship and season-pass models tailored to the times. “We’re going to create a reimagined approach to theater and community engagement with a whole other set of tools,” she says, recalling the early Live Arts shows produced on a shoestring. “They did amazing, legendary productions back then. If they could do it back then, we can certainly do it now.”

This year’s performance of In the Heights was shown entirely on Zoom, an example of Live Arts’ adaptations to COVID.

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THE PITCH > MUSIC

New rhythms Music venues look to rebound after COVID closings By Claudia Gohn

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he latest addition to IX Art Park’s medley of flowery, psychedelic art is a series of circles, painted six feet apart from each other on the ground. The new paint is one part of IX’s procedure for holding in-person concerts, after the coronavirus pandemic rendered them impossible for months. Though new cases continue to appear every day in the area, the state’s reopening plan has allowed places like IX to resume some version of their prepandemic operations. Positive Collective, a reggae and world music act, was IX’s first in-person show on July 18. “Instead of just buying a [concert] ticket, you’re buying access to a circle on the platform,” says IX Art Park Foundation Executive Director Susan Krischel. Concert-goers must stay in their circle, and need to wear a mask if they leave it, be that to go to the bathroom or to buy drinks. Krischel says shows now have a maximum of 120 attendees, while in the past the venue accommodated 2,000 people. These concerts won’t undo the economic effects of the last few months— reduced occupancy limits the amount of revenue generated from each show. “It’s tight,” Krischel says. “I’m not gonna lie about that. With that number of people, it is very difficult to break even.” Kirby Hutto, general manager of the Sprint Pavilion, expresses a similar sentiment: “Being capped at a thousand total capacity and 10 feet of social distancing just really, really cuts down what is financially viable for us.” “Normally this time of year we would have probably at least a dozen shows confirmed if not more,” Hutto says. By early March, he says that there had already been five shows on sale. Now, they have all been either rescheduled for 2021 or canceled altogether. Hutto

says, “all the artists that had holds on the calendar for the rest of 2020— they’re gone.” The venues that do reopen hope to provide a sense of relief and comfort to the community. In July, The Paramount Theater started showing movies twice a week at 3 pm. “[We] hope that people will come out of the theater around five and then hopefully go to an outdoor patio at a restaurant,” says Matthew Simon, director of operations and programming at the Paramount. “We’re kind of all in this thing together, and we’re not really trying to make money,” Simon says. “We’re just trying to get people to put a smile on their face and feel comfortable coming

The Paramount Theater has reopened, and is showing movies on Wednesday and Friday afternoons.

out to see a show.” Over the last month, the Paramount has gradually increased the number of movies shown a week, while maintaining safety measures such as a limited capacity. Other places are being more cautious. The Southern doesn’t have any events scheduled until October. Danny Shea, who manages the venue and is responsible for bookings at both the Southern and The Jefferson Theater, says he doesn’t want to risk anyone’s health. “We certainly wouldn’t want to come off as contributing to the problems,” Shea says. “And we don’t want to open up just so we have to close down soon after because we were too aggressive.”

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Nicole Brackett, a postdoctoral scientist at Indoor Biotechnologies, looks through a microscope. Martin Chapman, founder and CEO of the company, says his employees have shifted gears and devoted their energy to researching the threats of COVID-19. “We’re creating SARS-2 proteins,” he says, “for research, diagnostics, and vaccines.”

t a time when the majority of industries are struggling to survive, which—if any— are thriving? It’s difficult to pinpoint in terms of data, but Chris Engel, director of the city’s Office of Economic Development, says that two of Charlottesville’s healthiest sectors are biotechnology and renewable energy. “They’re what come to mind first,” he says, when asked about the fastestgrowing businesses in the city. A good indication of growth is the creation of “industry groups.” These groups are intended to be hubs for the industries they represent, gathering together relevant businesses and providing the resources for them to interact and forge meaningful partnerships and relationships. They also give those running the groups the unique ability to track trends and changes within the industry. Engel’s claim that biotech and renewable energy are two of Charlottesville’s strongest sectors is supported by the fact that, in recent years, both have seen the creation of industry groups in response to unprecedented growth. CvilleBioHub was founded in 2016, Charlottesville Renewable Energy Alliance—CvilleREA for short—in 2017. These two groups and the people who run them allow exclusive insight into two of the city’s most flourishing and forward-thinking industries—which have remained strong despite the pandemic. Nikki Hastings has only been executive director of CvilleBioHub for about a year, but she can still attest to the biotech boom she’s seen. When she took the job in March 2019, the most recent data indicated that biotech employed about 800 people in Charlottesville, with about 50 estimated biotech-related companies in operation locally. With an industry report put out this year, the employment number has risen to 1,950 and the number of businesses to 67. Hastings suggests that the growth can be at least partially attributed to the growing definition of biotech itself. The classic meaning, she says, is the creation of “a drug that a large pharma company might be interested in acquiring”—but this only covers one small aspect of the modern conception of biotechnology. Today, Hastings says, the industry is also compared to life sciences and evoked in the IT and AI fields. CONTINUED ON PAGE 21

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Despite its “broad and diverse range,” the many forms of biotech are “all focused toward innovation and advancing human health,” Hasting says. For companies in Charlottesville, this can take many different forms, but the events of recent months have led biotech companies to collectively focus on COVID-19, the imminent common threat to human health. Indoor Biotechnologies is researching the proteins that cause viral infections. Locus Health has developed a remote health care system in which nurses can track patients through the use of iPads. Similarly, Caretaker Medical’s technology can remotely gather information on a patient—everything from heart rate to blood oxygen level to stroke volume. These are just three of the companies Hastings highlights, but she emphasizes that there are dozens more doing comparable work, all locally seeking solutions to the current health crisis. And even though CvilleBioHub’s industry report was released immediately before the city began to feel the economic impact of COVID-19, she doesn’t think that the data would change significantly—if anything, it might have grown. One of Hastings’s most notable achievements as executive director is her work with the CHIP internship program, which debuted this summer. When UVA students who had planned to intern at companies located in biotech hubs such as Boston and San Francisco suddenly found their programs canceled, Hastings was quick to step in with a local,

Companies like Indoor Biotechnologies are hard at work fighting the pandemic.

for about a year—she’s in charge of CvilleREA, another exceptionally strong local industry, seeking to create a healthier environment for Charlottesville. Although CvilleREA’s presence is smaller than CvilleBioHub’s—the alliance contains eight partner companies that collectively employ around 425 people—VanLangen says that these numbers are typically found in the renewable energy industries of much larger cities. And of those eight companies, many of them, like Sigora Solar and Apex Clean Energy, are likely more recognizable to the average citizen than one of biotech’s many offshoots. During her first year, VanLangen says she’s seen the renewable energy industry “growing exponentially.” She agrees with Hastings in that “constant innovation” is a reason for this unusual growth, but some of it can also be attributed to the community-building work she’s done as executive director. “My day to day includes…talking to our board, understanding what’s happening in the industry, and how I can either help to highlight the industry or overcome challenges that might exist,” she says. “I also work a significant amount with the local community.” This grassroots element is essential to the work she does, VanLangen stresses. She mentions helping fight HOA blockages against homeowners who want to install solar panels, along with a “clean energy meet-and-greet” CvilleREA is planning with Dr. Cameron Webb, who’s running to represent the 5th District in Congress. Everything about her role, she says, is meant to “provide some kind of a benefit to our members and to the community.” Like Hastings, VanLangen’s local efforts strive toward national relevance. “I would love to see the size of our industry double,” she says. “I want Charlottesville to be nationally recognized as a hub for renewable energy. We see it here…we want it to be more known across the country.” Despite their ambitious parameters, VanLangen’s goals are, she says, “not lofty.” Like biotech, renewable energy is not an industry that’s going to be shrinking anytime soon. Both have innovation hardwired into their makeup, and both are progressive when much of the economy is regressive, drawing into itself rather than pushing forward. “I see huge growth coming,” VanLangen says. “We’re just on the cusp.”

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