Christopher Sewell is the Director of the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. Before working at DETR, he served the Division of Insurance in the Compliance Unit and the Real Estate Division as chief of the Compliance/Audit Unit. He started his regulatory duties with the Nevada Transportation Authority as an investigator and has worked for the Public Utilities Commission as a financial analyst, senior compliance investigator and acting manager in the Consumer Unit.

Prior to his state service he was a Washoe County Sheriff’s Office deputy and a Washoe County School District police officer.

Sewell is a fifth generation Nevadan born in Reno and holds a degree in Business Administration from Menlo College.

David Schmidt is Chief Economist, Research & Analysis Bureau, at Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation.

David will review Nevada Employment and Unemployment numbers, and the current state of the economy in Nevada.

The Department of Employment, Training & Rehabilitation (DETR) is Nevada’s lead workforce development agency. It consists of divisions that offer workforce related services, job placement and training, services for people with disabilities, investigation of claims of discrimination, unemployment insurance benefits, labor market data and more.