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Article: Does Baton Rouge really want these people?
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- The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
- Article date:
- December 16, 2008
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The face of change in Baton Rouge looks a lot like Dan Kahn - a 26-year-old, Harvard-educated public school teacher in a sharp business suit with a goal of improving the community through hands-on involvement. He is not a native. He does not bleed purple and gold. And he doesn't live in the suburbs. Instead, he works for systemic change, lives in an eclectic downtown community and believes the monumental change will take more than just fixing the city's traffic problems.
Kahn is just the type of person that city/parish leaders have talked about since the brain drain began in the 1980s. He is a committed and optimistic young professional with the ingenuity, humility and drive to extract the ...