Charity Pennock, Policy Analyst

Policy expertise: Community and economic development.

Charity Pennock joined Southern Growth as a policy analyst in August 2005, with much of her experience centered around community and economic development.

Charity joined Southern Growth after moving to North Carolina from Lincoln, Nebraska where she worked as a research assistant with the University of Nebraska Rural Initiative. She also spent nearly a year in the Philippines carrying out a research project with the Chalmers Center for Economic Development that focused on small savings and loan groups in and around the metro-Manila area.

Charity recently presented the paper "Looking Back for a Sustainable Future" at the Rural Sociological Society's Annual Meeting which created a new framework for sustainable community development by combining sociological theory and community development practice.

Charity received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with a minor in economic development from Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia and a Master in Community & Regional Planning degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Contact Charity Pennock at cpennock@southern.org.