Cost: Free and open to the public but space is limited (to 20 attendees) and registration will be required. Boxed lunches will be provided. Please note any dietary requests on your registration form or send an email to [email protected]
Details: The Lunch and Learn will serve as the official unveiling of the permanent Remembrance Project Exhibit. Leonard Jones with Buncombe County Communications & Public Engagement will moderate a
local conversation and reflection with guest speakers Dr. Joseph Fox and Mr. Jonathan McCoy.
Dr. Joseph Fox Bio
Dr. Joseph Fox is the owner of Fox Management Consulting Enterprises, LLC. He possesses an Ed.D. and an M.B.A. from Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, and a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Pfeiffer University, Misenheimer, NC. Dr. Fox also possesses the Professional in Human Resources Management (PHR) National Certification, Global Achieve Leadership Training Certification, the Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning (REAL) Certification, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace Certification.
Dr. Joseph Fox is a life-long educator, mentor, and community advocate. He has advocated for students of a darker hue for more than 30 years in his role as a community college instructor, as well as his role as a former Department Chair of Business Administration at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. Dr. Fox is the outgoing Vice President of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County, a Wilma Dykeman Board Member, and a Carolina Small Business Development Fund Board Member. He is a recent appointee to the Advisory Committee for the Asheville African-American Heritage Trail Project. In his hometown of Tryon, NC, Dr. Fox serves on the Eastside Citizens’ Advisory Committee, and is Vice President of the Roseland Community Center Board of Directors. Dr. Fox is also a former President of the Thermal Belt Friendship Council. He has been the Chair of the Asheville Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace March and Rally Committee for a number of years, and he Chairs the Buncombe Community Remembrance Project in partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative, to recognize, honor, and celebrate the three individuals “of record” that were lynched in Buncombe County.
Jonathan McCoy, M.A., History
Director of the Center for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (CDEI), Mars Hill University
Instructor, History Department, Mars Hill University
Jonathan earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Mars Hill College (now University) in 1992. He earned a Master of Arts in History from North Carolina State University in 2000. In 2004, he earned a Teacher Certification (Secondary Social Studies Education) from East Carolina University.
From 1992-2018 Jonathan worked in several high schools in the Durham County and Wake County Public Schools systems. He instructed at-risk students and coached football, wrestling and track. In 2018, he returned to his alma mater Mars Hill University.
Jonathan focuses his teaching on helping students create a foundation of self-awareness centered on a transformational mindset that raises their level of critical thinking, communication, and cultural consciousness as individuals through positive engagements. Currently, Jonathan teaches courses on North Carolina History & Government and World Geography/Regional Conflicts.
After a year as interim director, in 2020, Jonathan was named the director of MHU’s Center for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (CDEI). As director of the CDEI, Jonathan’s goal has been to help build an empowering community through strategic planning and policy development to support diversity initiatives that supports positive engagements with students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, and community members.