When Lya (pronounced Lee-ah) Kimbrough left Chattanooga after high school about 10 years ago, moving back here as a young adult wasn’t part of her career plan.
But life has a way of unfolding in unexpected ways, and the 28-year-old event planner says she has a whole new perspective on the Scenic City now that she finds herself a young professional here.
“Coming back (to Chattanooga) as an adult is so much different,” she says. “It’s not so big to where it’s overwhelming. There are just so many people doing what they love.”
While she was in high school at Chattanooga School for the Art and Sciences, Kimbrough says she lived in the Highway 58 area and didn’t come downtown much. But now, being connected to the Enterprise Center, a downtown innovation hub, puts her near the beating heart of the vibrant Innovation District in the central city.
Kimbrough, who cut her teeth on event planning in Atlanta after attending college at Middle Tennessee State University, is events and outreach manager for The Enterprise Center, which is headquartered in the Edney Building at 1100 Market St.