Charity Pennock, Program Manager

Policy expertise: Technology and energy policy.

Charity Pennock joined Southern Growth as a policy analyst in August 2005. Charity currently serves as a program manager with the Southern Technology Council (STC) and as project coordinator for the Southeast Agriculture & Forestry Energy Resources Alliance (SAFER). Charity coordinates initiatives, builds partnerships, and researches issues related to technology, innovation and renewable energy.

Prior to joining Southern Growth, Charity 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 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.