Currently serving as chief of staff for the marketing & communications team for The Recycling Partnership, an NGO dedicated to building a better recycling system, I am responsible for leading, owned, earned, paid and shared channels, internal communications, storytelling and cause marketing aimed at building a national movement around recycling. Prior to joining The Partnership, I was a senior leader in marketing & communications at Asheville-based Mission Health. There, I had responsibility for leading the planning, execution and evaluation of all issues and crisis communications, digital, social media and web initiatives across the $1.9 billion integrated health system with 10 hospitals and post-acute care facilities, numerous ambulatory clinics, a team of 12,000 and one of the largest accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the nation. During my 8-year tenure at the six-time Top 15 Health System, the team was named to several prestigious lists, including the Internet’s Top 50 Health Education Blogs the Internet's Top 100 Health & wellness Blogs, the Top 100 hospitals in social media, the nation’s “Most Wired” hospitals and #5 Super Hospital in IT. Other recognitions included Best Website and Digital Campaign by Healthcare Marketing National as well as awards from the regional division of the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development (SHSMD), recognizing Mission Health for its consumer and team member publications, mixed media campaigns, interactive websites, marketing on a shoestring budget, social media, mobile applications and internal communications. Outside of my primary role, I have been appointed is an adjunct assistant professor of business at the University of North Carolina Asheville and has been a member of the graduate school faculty at the College of Health and Human Sciences at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. My teaching experiences have included undergraduate and graduate-level courses in marketing, introduction to business, principles of management, organizational behavior and theory as well as strategic management. I recently served on the Carolina Healthcare Public Relations & Marketing Society's board of directors and currently serves as lay leader and communications director at Mars Hill United Methodist Church. I am completing his second term on the leadership team as convener of the Madison County Racial Justice Coalition. He volunteers with the local United Way, Reconciling Ministries, the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church and several social enterprises.