64: Journalist to Director of Programs at Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust with Adam Linker, MA

Interview with Adam Linker, MA

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Highlights from this episode:

1. Improving community health through power building, capacity, and networks
2. Working as a Policy Analyst at the Justice Center
3. Starting as a journalist to then becoming a health advocate
4. Pursuing a bachelors in African American Studies

Episode 64 of Public Health Careers

Adam Linker, MA is the Director of Programs at the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust.

Adam got his Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy and African American Studies at University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. He did start his collegiate career at North Carolina State before switching across to UNC Chapel Hill.

Adam went on to get his Master of Arts in African American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst followed by getting another Masters of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC Chapel Hill.

After graduating, he began his career as a Health and Education Reporter at Triangle Business Journal. Following this he became a Policy Analyst for Health Access Coalition at North Carolina Justice Center.

Adam then went on to become a Program Officer at the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust (The Trust). Since then Adam has been promoted to Senior Program Officer and then to Director of Programs at Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust. As Director of Program, he now manages the Program Team to drive forward the Trust’s mission of improving the health and quality of life for financially disadvantaged North Carolinians.