With Amazon HQ2 coming to Northern Virginia, local leaders see fresh opportunities for education and commerce, the region’s top educators said this week.

Germanna Community College President Janet Gullickson and University of Mary Washington President Troy Paino emerged from an information-technology summit in Fredericksburg sounding inspired about the challenges presented by Amazon’s pending arrival and the national capital’s already-urgent demand for graduates trained in cybersecurity and other tech fields. More >>