Teri MacBride has Roots in Central Pennsylvania and Hands-on Experience in Economic Development

Teri MacBride, an economic development veteran, former Peace Corps volunteer and a lifelong resident of central Pennsylvania, has been named PPL’s regional community relations director covering the Bloomsburg, Sunbury, Danville and Shamokin areas.

“We’re pleased to have Teri with us to represent PPL and its employees in the central Susquehanna Valley,” said Don Bernhard, PPL’s manager of Community and Economic Development. “With her roots in this part of the state and hands-on experience as an economic development professional, she will continue our tradition of regional community relations directors who understand and appreciate what it means to be genuine community leaders.”

As she makes the transition into her new position, MacBride will work with her predecessors — Joe Scopelliti, recently named manager of community relations for PPL’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant near Berwick, and Rod Keller, who retired in 2006 after serving as community representative for PPL in the central Susquehanna Valley for many years.

Before coming to PPL, MacBride had served since December 2005 as executive director for economic development marketing with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. She was responsible for developing strategies to market Pennsylvania to businesses looking to invest in the state.

In 2003, MacBride’s career in international business and economic development took a decidedly different turn. She joined the first group of U.S. Peace Corps volunteers to return to Albania since 1997 when civil unrest forced an end to the program.

Working for 27 months with the mayor of Pogradec, a city of 40,000 people in eastern Albania, she helped city leaders to address their new local responsibilities as an emerging, decentralized democratic country. 

She also served for seven years as the first president of Focus Central Pennsylvania, a regional marketing association that promotes new corporate investment, job growth and economic development cooperation.

MacBride is a graduate of American University with a degree in international studies. She holds a master’s degree in public administration from Shippensburg University.

As a longtime resident of Lewisburg, Union County, she has served on many boards and advisory committees in various capacities. Her volunteer interests include the League of Women Voters of the Lewisburg Area, the Slifer House Museum and the Merrill W. Linn Land and Waterways Conservancy.

PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), headquartered in Allentown, Pa., controls more than 11,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to about 4 million customers in Pennsylvania and the United Kingdom.

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