Joshua Jennings
Joshua Jennings
Communication Manager
joshuajennings@unc.edu
+1 919-843-9773
3014 FedEx Global Education Center
he/him
Joshua Jennings is the communication manager at UNC Global Affairs. He has served in this role since 2023. In this role, he helps his colleagues tell stories. He manages the monthly newsletter, social media, event promotion and executive communication. Joshua 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.
Hometown
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Education
B.A., International Studies and Spanish, University of Kentucky
M.S., Community and Leadership Development, University of Kentucky
Languages
Haitian Creole
Spanish