The Rural Towns Project Podcast

Dax Jacobson

Dax Jacobson is a business professor who grew up in and loves the rural American West. The Rural Towns Project Podcast documents Dax’s journey to highlight the history of rural small towns in the American West, to share stories about the people trying to make a living in them, and to learn more about the challenges and opportunities they face.

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The Rural Towns Project Podcast

Episodes (54)

Mon Sep 7th From policy wonk to dirtbagging to rural economic development strategic plans with August Granath in Moab, Utah
Aug 3rd Trading posts, pawn rooms, and Navajo cultural history with historian Robert McPherson in Blanding, Utah
Jul 19th Learning about rural apprenticeship programs and how they might work in places like Blanding, Utah with Inside Higher Ed reporter Sara Weissman

The Rural Towns Project Podcast

Sep 7, 2026
43½ minutes
29 MB

I’m currently learning more about Moab, Utah. In this episode, I chat with August Granath, Technical Outreach Manager for the Center for Rural Development in the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development. August shares his story, a story that starts with the goal to do good and have a positive impact and leads from Salt Lake City to international climate policy work to Moab, Utah. We talk about how in Moab he went from policy work to basically living the dirtbag life and learning from that experience to inform the current rural economic development work he is doin...

The Rural Towns Project Podcast

From policy wonk to dirtbagging to rural economic development strategic plans with August Granath in Moab, Utah

Dax Jacobson

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