Joshua Jennings
Associate director for communication and special advisor to the vice provost for global affairs — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Biography
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Joshua Jennings is the associate director for communication and special advisor to the vice provost at UNC Global Affairs. He joined UNC Global Affairs in 2023. Joshua helps his colleagues tell stories. He manages the monthly newsletter, social media, event promotion and executive communication. He is experienced in higher education communication — specifically, executive communication and crisis communication — and is passionate about using meaningful, strategic communication to enhance internationalization in higher education. Joshua also organizes Diplomatic Discussions, a key component of Carolina's Diplomacy Initiative.
From 2017 to 2020, he lived in Ouanaminthe, Haiti, building and supporting a network of nonprofit organizations and serving as a citizen liaison volunteer (or warden) with the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His efforts focused on education, public health, agricultural development and leadership development. In 2020, he relocated to Lexington, Kentucky, to manage communication in the University of Kentucky's COVID-19 pandemic emergency operations unit before joining the university's executive communication team. For more than two years, Joshua supported the university's administration in its communication efforts, including crisis communication.
Joshua is originally from Kentucky, earning his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Kentucky. He also completed coursework at the Universidad Latina in Heredia, Costa Rica, and won the Outstanding Thesis Award for his master's thesis in graduate school. His graduate research analyzed storytelling, photography and narrative-building in cross-cultural, short-term missions contexts. Joshua loves good stories and the outdoors and often can be found cooking or reading. He lives with his family in Carrboro.
From 2017 to 2020, he lived in Ouanaminthe, Haiti, building and supporting a network of nonprofit organizations and serving as a citizen liaison volunteer (or warden) with the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His efforts focused on education, public health, agricultural development and leadership development. In 2020, he relocated to Lexington, Kentucky, to manage communication in the University of Kentucky's COVID-19 pandemic emergency operations unit before joining the university's executive communication team. For more than two years, Joshua supported the university's administration in its communication efforts, including crisis communication.
Joshua is originally from Kentucky, earning his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Kentucky. He also completed coursework at the Universidad Latina in Heredia, Costa Rica, and won the Outstanding Thesis Award for his master's thesis in graduate school. His graduate research analyzed storytelling, photography and narrative-building in cross-cultural, short-term missions contexts. Joshua loves good stories and the outdoors and often can be found cooking or reading. He lives with his family in Carrboro.