ANNUAL MEETINGS
Each year, Wilson Forward hosts an Annual Meeting for local partners and community members. This meeting is designed to focus on specific challenges and opportunities presented to the Wilson community while also highlighting the work of many existing partnerships and collaborative efforts dedicated to making Wilson a great place to work and live.
Registration is offered first to our community partners and then made available to other interested parties as space is available. The event is free of charge due to the support of many community partners.
Your generosity and partnership makes it possible for us to continue our work to improve educational opportunities, health and wellness, and workforce development in Wilson. Because of your support, we are offering Wilson Forward partners an early invitation to register early for the Wilson Forward Annual Meeting on October 8th, 9-11:30am.
General registration will open on Wednesday, September 4th, but you may use the following link to register now:
Mariel Beasley is a Co-Founder of the Common Cents Lab and Principal at the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University. The Center focuses on using behavioral science to create a happier, healthier, and wealthier world. Working directly with banks, credit unions, FinTech, employers, companies, non-profits, and local governments, Mariel and her team use insights on what really drives behavior to design and rigorously test ideas in the field, exploring what is needed, what works, and how to drive impact, primarily in the financial services sector and public policy arena. To date, they have worked with over 100 companies and designed over 150 solutions that reach millions of people around the world. She holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Duke University and a BA in International Relations from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her previous work experience includes Boulder County Housing and Human Services, Peace Corps-Dominican Republic, and Nagle & Associates, a consulting firm for nonprofits and charitable foundations.
SPEAKER BIOS
Mariel Beasley
Nathan Dollar
Dr. Nathan Dollar is the Director of Carolina Demography. His work helps leaders across North Carolina make sense of population-level changes throughout the state. Dollar, a population health demographer by training, has decades of experience in research and program implementation across North Carolina and abroad. Most recently Dollar served as a research scientist and Project Director for the Dynamics of Extreme Events, People, and Places (DEEPP) survey at the Carolina Population Center. There, he worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers investigating the factors that shape how people and communities in eastern North Carolina, prepare for, are affected by, and recover from extreme weather events. Dollar previously served in the U.S. Peace Corps in El Salvador and as Executive Director of Vecinos, Inc. Farmworker Health Program in western NC. Since 2014, he has served on the Governing Board for the NC Farmworker Health Program within the NC Office of Rural Health. Through these experiences, Dollar has gained a deep understanding of our state institutions and the complex issues shaping population changes in North Carolina. A native of Wilson, Dollar received his BA in Sociology and Spanish from Western Carolina University, his MA in Sociology from Colorado State University and his PhD in Sociology from UNC-Chapel Hill.