Mahoning Valley - After a months-long, confidential search, the Lake to River Economic Development has a new CEO.

Dani Robbins comes to the organization with extensive background in nonprofit management and social justice.

Seemingly missing, though, is any experience in the field of economic development, the sole and primary focus of Lake to River.

Robbins has previously served as director of nonprofit administration programs at John Carroll University in Cleveland.

She will take over as the first permanent CEO of Lake to River. Alexa Sweeney-Blackann has been serving in the role on an interim basis since it's inception.

In a 2019 profile of women at John Carroll, Robbins was quoted on Medium.com as saying her role at the university was her "dream job," saying she'd made a career adv

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