Noah Wilson Email & Phone Number

Asheville, North Carolina, United States

I lead Mountain BizWorks' Sector Development department, helping ensure that the ecosystems that help our small businesses in Western NC start, grow, and thrive are, themselves, healthy and thriving. Our work focuses primarily on three core sectors of the WNC economy - Outdoor Recreation, Local Food, and Craft - all of which are tied to the health and.

Asheville, North Carolina Area

As part of my work at Emergent Opportunities, I'm lucky to now be able to dedicate at least 1/2 of my time to helping grow the outdoor economy in WNC through managing the Growing Outdoors Partnership (https://outdoorswnc.com), a collaborative effort that links programs and organizations from workforce development, entrepreneurship, financing, supply chain.

Asheville, North Carolina Area

I help make regenerative economies happen - economies where businesses, nonprofits, educators, and the public sector all work together to create and support the growth of strong, resilient communities and workplaces. I especially focus my work on rural communities, and on how they live, work, and play with their urban neighbors and markets nearby.From.

Asheville, NC

At Adapt-able, I did a lot of good in the world, especially in Appalachia - helping with recycling/zero waste, regional/rural economic development, sustainable food systems, and environmental/pollution issues. I learned a lot, built a lot of initiatives and websites as well as long-lasting relationships, and helped move our region, as well as some national.

I managed and helpd with reporting on large sustainable economic development grants for AdvantageWest, WNC's regional economic development commission. It was my job to help grow, attract, and support agricultural and natural-resource-based businesses in and to our region; that's businesses doing things like farming, forest products, clean energy, natural.

Asheville, North Carolina Area

Helping visionary changemaker Sara Day Evans with the operational and everyday aspects of launching and running a nature-based business accelerator, targeting enterprises in industries like farming, forestry/forest products, food production and processing, sustainable textiles, renewable energy, craft brewing, and sustainable tourism.

Asheville, NC

Rural Fellow at the Rural Support Partners, a social enterprise that helps people, organizations and networks work together to get things done that they couldn't alone, and to work across geographic and cultural boundaries.I managed projects ranging from single workshops to year-long strategic planning processes with hundreds of moving parts. I also did.

Asheville, North Carolina Area

I ran and helped maintain two dormitories while in my last two years at Warren Wilson College. Residence directors oversee junior residence life staff, keep dorms clean and in good repair, create and put on educational and social programs, and generally help define the very nature of the space they live in and oversee. I think my main role in this job was.

Asheville, North Carolina Area

I was a plumber in training, then a full-fledged plumber, then finally a student crew leader for the WWC Plumbing Arts Crew. This meant thinking in systems, getting dirty, working alone and alongside other students and staff, coordinating with other crews, acting as a liaison with county staff when doing grant-funded rainwater catchment projects, and.

Vanir Energy is the renewable energies portion of the largest construction management firm in California. They help large commercial clients (and homeowners, through a distribution and service network) transition away from fossil fuels and towards using solar energy for their HVAC and heated/chilled water needs, as well as electricity.I researched.

This was one of my cooler jobs thus far - selling fine cheeses for a living. Basically, I ate and talked about fine foods all day, suggested pairings and complimentary items from other departments, and even got to write a cheese "training manual" and staff reference guide. It was a great job for a someone young with a high metabolism and a desire to learn.

I spent 10 months working as a line cook at a fine-foods restaurant, learning on my feet and filling in for an unexpectedly absent sous-chef. This was one of the best experiences of my life, as well as one of the most brutal. Line cooking is a tough job, with long hours on your feet and lots of fire, knives, hot oil and angry people.However, when things.

This was a summer position at a local high-end plant nursery - I was considering going into landscape architecture at the time, and wanted to see where the professionals shopped, what the business was like, who the customers were, and whether I felt like it might work. I didn't - but I learned a lot there, and certainly enjoyed the job - especially getting.

Sustainable Economic Development, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Art

Activities and Societies: Two years on the plumbing crew; crew leader for one of them. Two years as a residence director. Co-taught a.

Aa, Ceramics, Sociology, History

Activities and Societies: Ceramics Guild, invasive species removal, cooking club, basketball team, soccer team, trail-building workshops,