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Positive growth in metro Chattanooga is best achieved through careful planning and preservation, Thrive Regional Partnership marketing head says

Photography by Olivia Ross / Alexa Williams
Photography by Olivia Ross / Alexa Williams


A lot of people claim to be results-oriented people, but 31-year-old Alexa Williams has the resume to prove she can deliver.

Willams spent almost seven years in Washington, D.C., as a congressional staffer before returning to Chattanooga — her hometown — where she now serves as marketing and communications director at Thrive Regional Partnership.

Thrive is a Chattanooga-based growth planning and preservation advocacy group serving a 16-county, multi-state region. It assists planning agencies in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia to help them be better stewards of the natural world through careful growth.

“It’s healthy for me. It’s a good change,” Williams, a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the U.S. Naval War College, says of her current job.