Staff

  • Midas Hampton, Ph.D.

    Founding Executive Director

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  • Belal Hossain

    Belal Hossain

    Director of Research and Evaluation

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  • Sarah Buckmaster

    Community Research Associate - Part Time

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  • Jalean Davis

    Administrative Assistant

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  • Joshua Todd

    Joshua Todd

    Community Data Analyst - Intern

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  • Tenille Black

    Community Impact Coordinator

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Board of Directors

  • Allen Smith

    President/CEO

    OneSpartanburg Inc.

  • Alysa Handelsman, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor & Community Sustainability Specialist

    Wofford College

  • Caroline Robertson

    Executive Director

    Greer Relief

  • Cierra Kelly

    Chief of Staff and Community Engagement

    ReGenesis Health Care

  • Earl Alexander II

    Deputy County Administrator

    Spartanburg County

  • Glenda Simms, Ph.D.

    Director of Nursing

    Clinton College

  • JaLisa Jordan

    Program Manager

    Live Healthy Spartanburg

  • Mitch Kennedy

    Deputy City Manager

    City of Spartanburg

  • Molly Talbot-Metz

    President/CEO

    Mary Black Foundation

  • Paige Stevenson

    Paige Stevenson

    President/CEO

    United Way of the Piedmont

  • Pamela Steinke, Ph.D.

    Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs

    USC Upstate

  • Polly Edwards-Padgett

    Senior Director of Strategic Philanthropy

    Spartanburg Regional Foundation

  • R. Bernard Wheeler II

    Commercial Relationship Manager

    United Community Bank

  • Roger Williams

    Owner

    Hands On Interpreting & Consulting

  • Russell Booker, Ph.D, CDE

    President/CEO

    Spartanburg Academic Movement

  • Troy Hanna

    President/CEO

    Spartanburg County Foundation

  • Victor Durhah, Jr.

    President & Executive Director

    Brothers Restoring Urban Hope, Inc. (BRUH)