On the emerging workforce and investing in Tulsa - Andrea Pemberton, TYPROS

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. 

It’s spring in Tulsa and all the events are back. There’s Mayfest this weekend, Iron Man returns, Black Wall Street Legacy Festival, and Southern Hills Country Club is hosting the PGA Championship for a record fifth time, which you can read all about in our May issue. 

While those events help draw people to Tulsa, many of our city’s young professionals will gather around the drawing board to come up with ideas to enhance a section of Tulsa going through a revitalization. 

On May 13-14 TYPROS annual community development event Street Cred: Outside the Loops returns with a focus on reimagining an area just outside of downtown and creatively strategizing development opportunities.  

Andrea Pemberton, Executive Director of TYPROS, is here to discuss Street Cred and more on this episode. 

She’s worked for the organization for since 2018 and took over the helm in 2020, which means Andrea has guided TYPROS through the COVID-19 pandemic. TYPROS is an organization that’s lifeblood is people networking together in the same room. She discusses how they were able to go with the flow and adapt to continue their mission. 

It’s an interesting time for the organization. Since birth TYPROS has basically been a millennial club. Seventeen years later many of the millennials are aging out and the next generation of young professionals are growing. Andrea discusses what they’re seeing during this transition and what’s to come in the near future.  

Tulsa is growing with people from all over the country relocating here. This includes Andrea. We discuss what the organization is seeing from programs like Tulsa Remote, and she talks about what brought her to Tulsa and why she’s such a big fan of the city. 

She’s also very civically engaged, so we talk about our shared passion for voting and why she’s so passionate about the electoral process. We also dive into her background on why she got an Anthropology degree at OU and how she’s used it throughout her career. We cover a lot of ground in this one. 

Following my conversation with Andrea, hear a new song from John Moreland. More on that later.  

OK, let’s get this going. 

This is Tulsa Talks with Andrea Pemberton.  

John Moreland is back with new music. That’s one of the best emails I’ve received recently. The Tulsan can write and sing a song like no other. He’s a rare talent and as you’ll hear in this song he continues to grow and showcase his skills.

Ugly Faces, is the first single from his new album “Birds in the Ceiling” out July 22. You can preorder the album at johnmoreland.net. There you can also check out his slate of nationwide tour dates starting in July. So far there are no Tulsa shows on the schedule, but there is an opening the first week of August between St. Louis and Santa Fe (hint, hint Cain’s Ballroom).  

I’ll let John take it from here with “Ugly Faces”