Katie Cox

Admin & Program Associate

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    Katie began working at UNC Asheville in 2014 in the Health Sciences Department (formerly the Health and Wellness Department). She currently shares her time with Health Sciences, the UNC Asheville – UNC Gillings MPH Program and the NC Center for Health and Wellness (NCCHW). Her work with Health Sciences includes administrative support, fiscal tracking, and co-managing the Teaching Kitchen. Her work with the NCCHW includes administrative and operations support for staff, fiscal tracking, and supporting initiatives to engage with students and campus resources. In recent years, she has provided support for campus student-led programs such as the Student Health Ambassadors and the Food Equity Initiative. For the MPH Program, Katie provides fiscal and operations support.

    Her previous experience includes providing customer service and administrative support for natural products companies. She has also worked at and volunteered for the National Park Service, helped to maintain a small Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm and market, and served as an art teacher in after-school programs. She is enthusiastic about community-based food systems and food access and has been participating with the Bountiful Cities board since 2023 in addition to co-leading the steering committee for the Woodfin Community Garden.

    Katie earned a BFA degree from the University of South Florida in Tampa where she studied photography, printmaking, and ceramics, and a MFA degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. She has completed the Fundamentals of Herbalism course at the Asheville School of Holistic Herbalism and the Regenerative Backyard Blueprint permaculture design course with Shades of Green Permaculture. She is currently working on earning a Certificate in Horticulture Science from NC State University.

    As often as possible, Katie enjoys getting out in the forest to hike and explore the diverse plant world of the southern Appalachians. She also enjoys gardening, baking and cooking, yoga, sewing, drawing, and learning about urban homesteading.

    Equity Work

    • Health and Wellness Department Equity Commitment Committee; providing support for reviewing and improving structure and resources of departmental scholarship opportunities

    • 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge

    • Reading and discussion groups for: How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi, The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

    • Racial Equity Institute (REI) Phase 1 Workshop
    • Racial Equity in Food Systems Training Level 1 and 2 offered by The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS)