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Mark Gesner has revived, recharged, reinvented, redirected his life multiple times. Each time he draws on lessons and skills from the previous chapter. He’s on his third chapter. Mark is the Maureen and Douglas Cohn Executive Director of the Tampa JCCs. This is a new role that he assumed a few months ago.
While he’s familiar with nonprofits, he spent many years in academia. He was the Vice President of Community Engagement, Innovation & Communications at Saint Leo University. He served as a business professor and the executive director of the Hub for Innovation and Community Engaged Learning at Cardinal Stritch University. And now he's move across the country to take on a completely different role leading a large nonprofit. In the next three episodes we will hear his story.
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