Jade Powell
Southeastern Regional Development Agency
Deputy Director
Biography
Jade Powell is the deputy director at the Southeastern Regional Development Agency (formally known as Southeastern Utah Association of Local Governments | Southeastern Utah Economic Development District). Powell has experience working in rural counties and communities throughout southeastern Utah in regards to strategic planning, community outreach & education and fundraising for private and public investments. Powell volunteers his time in the following ways; secretary / treasurer for the Southeastern Entrepreneurial Network (SEEN); Carbon County Planning and Zoning Commissioner; previous Price City Planning & Zoning Commissioner; previous Price Kiwanis Club board member and president.
Powell was born and raised in rural southeastern Utah and continues to find innovative ways to make his home even better than it is. Powell is a fifth generation to the area and takes pride in his family’s history of settling Price, Utah. Powell’s education includes receiving an undergraduate degree from Utah State University.
Powell enjoys camping, hiking and riding ATVs throughout southeastern Utah with his wife (Danyan), sons (Jasper and Dawson), and their pups (Zoya and Kaz).