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Female Leaders Gather in Kirksville COLUMBIA, MO (KBIA) - Women leaders in business, academia, research and government will arrive in Kirksville tomorrow to participate in this year's Greater Missouri Leadership challenge. Created by telephone company employees in the late 1980's, the leadership challenge is a traveling symposium. It gives women leaders the opportunity to address government, urban and rural issues facing Missouri. Debi Boughton directs Tourism for the Kirksville Chamber of Commerce. She says the symposium provides a unique opportunity for participants to see rural Missouri first-hand.

When they come visit Kirksville we try to give them a big picture of the issues facing rural Missouri; we try to have them understand the complexity of economic development in an agriculture community.

Symposium members have already traveled to Jefferson City and Kansas City where they held sessions about government and urban issues. In November, the symposium will reconvene in St. Louis to discuss Global Perspectives on Life Sciences Technology and the Environment.
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