Daniela Vidal Chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College Selected 2023 CCO “Community Services Award Winner

Steve Hammer and County Commissioner Ben Shoulders Co-Chairmen of the 2023 “Community Services Award” luncheon” are excited to announce that the highly regarded Chancellor of Ivy Tech, Daniela Vidal will be honored as a 2023 City-County Observer “Community Service Awards “luncheon” held at BALLY’S-Evansvilla.on November 1, 2023, at noon.

Daniela Vidal began her tenure as Chancellor of the Ivy Tech Community College Evansville Campus on March 16, 2020. She came to Ivy Tech from the position of vice president of operations at Vidal Plastics. 

The Evansville Campus serves a 10-county region with additional sites located in Tell City.

Prior to her work at Vidal Plastics, Daniela served for more than 10 years in a variety of roles at the University of Southern Indiana. Her last role was as director of Opportunity Development, which housed the Center for Applied Research, Eagle Innovations Accelerator and Tech Commercialization, Resource Development, USI @ Innovation Pointe, and the I-69 Innovation Corridor initiative.

Previously, she was coordinator of the Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Supervision degree programs and Engineering instructor, at USI. Vidal has also served as a consultant and trainer in the fields of operational excellence, new product introduction and leadership.

She has also served in a variety of roles at Procter & Gamble Latin America, Mead Johnson, GE Plastics and Berry Plastics. She holds a chemical engineering degree from Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela, and a Master of Business Administration from USI.

Vidal is active in the community serving on several boards including the Evansville Regional Economic Partnership Executive Committee, Deaconess Hospital, YMCA of Southwest Indiana, Reitz Memorial High School’s President’s Council, The International Center, WNIN, and Talent Evv Education Advisory Board.  Most notably, she is a founding member and past president of HOLA. She has been involved in advocacy for the Latino community since 2001 and has taken that passion to both the local and state level.

She has been recognized for her leadership and community involvement through such honors as being named an of JLA’s Top 20 Women in Business, Athena Award finalist, Leadership Evansville award, Top Five Most Influential Women in Evansville, Sydney Berger Community Award, and YWCA 100 Years 100 Women.

In addition to cultural awareness and advancing the Latino community, Vidal is also very passionate about economic and workforce development in our region.  A few of the projects Vidal has been involved in include: 

• Growth Alliance Innovation & Entrepreneurship Committee Chair
• Rural Indiana Technology Commercialization Initiative (RITCI)
• Led region in application for Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership initiative
• I-69 Innovation Corridor leadership team and steering committee; this included the Brainpower and Innovation & Entrepreneurship task forces. 

Chancellor Daniela Vidal stated “She is committed to fully leveraging my experience, cultural background
and passion to make Ivy Tech a beacon of hope for our community.”

FOOTNOTE”  Later this  week we shall be announcing our next “2023 COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD WINNERS”

CALL 1-812-7748011 TO MAKE RESERVATIONS FOR THE CCO ANNUAL “COMMUNITY SERVICE” AWARDS LUNCHEON HELD AT NOON ON NOVEMBER 1, 2023 AT BALLY’S=EVANSVILLE