Recursion CEO Chris Gibson and former Utah legislator Rebecca Chavez-Houck say they each will bring unique perspectives to The Salt Lake Tribune board of directors.
Rebecca Chavez-Houck and Chris Gibson bring unique perspectives to board that oversees the nonprofit news outlet, they said.
As a former legislator who focused on health disparities, and a Latina woman in Utah, Chavez-Houck said she knew from experience that Utah’s communities of color would be hit disproportionately hard by the virus. But she did not yet know how to communicate that outcome, or how to measure it.. Chavez-Houck said she was impressed by Larsen’s agility as he pivoted from Jazz coverage to COVID data. It was exactly the response the community needed, she said.
She represented northeast Salt Lake City in the Utah House of Representatives from 2008 to 2018, and focused on health and human services and election reform. Her journalism training made her a better, more fair legislator, Chavez-Houck said — she couldn’t shake the editor’s voice in the back of her head, reminding her to ask bigger questions and consider all possible sides and outcomes while she evaluated legislation.
“I’m looking forward to thinking about, how do I support as a board member, the staff, the rest of the board, given my background, given my perspective,” she said. “Also, as a Latina, who has that lived experience of having grown up in Utah as a religious minority, as an ethnic minority, as a woman… those lived experiences also color how I look at the world and how I think that we can be active listeners as an institution.
Gibson moved to Utah in 2009 as a bioengineering Ph.D. student at the University of Utah. He founded Recursion in 2013. The company is a marriage of medicine and technology, according to its website, and uses tech to map human biology and create new medicines. Its offices are near The Tribune’s in The Gateway.
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