WEDC creates new position to advance Tribal economic development

Building relationships with Wisconsin’s Tribes

Fleming will be the first point of contact for WEDC in its relationships with administrators, grant writers, and other leaders within the state’s Tribes.

Fleming, a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, joined WEDC’s Office of Rural Prosperity (ORP) in January 2022 as a program specialist with the Revitalizing Economic Vibrancy After a Major Pandemic (REVAMP) program. When that appointment ended, he became one of ORP’s two rural development specialists for Thrive Rural Wisconsin, focusing on economic development in five northern Wisconsin communities, including the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

Fleming, who earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin-Superior and a master’s in business administration from UW-Eau Claire, has also served as business manager for the Lac Courte Oreilles and business instructor at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College in Hayward, and he has been an entrepreneur, owning and managing several businesses...