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Trevor Flanery

Partnership Manager

Winston-Salem

Trevor Flanery is the MDC Rural Prosperity and Investment Partnership Manager for Public Sector Finance. He joined MDC in 2022 and is responsible for supporting projects that build community-led capacity to plan, consult, question, engage, and partner with local government toward long-term recovery, resilience, and community development efforts.

Before joining MDC, Trevor’s professional background included positions in development and resilience planning, field organizing, issue advocacy, outreach, policy research, and higher education roles. He was a founding member of Defenders of Wildlife’s State Environmental Resource Center in collaboration with NRDC and served as executive director of Forsyth Futures.

Trevor has taught at Virginia Tech and Radford University and published research on housing, community development, environmental administration, and regional resilience. He holds a doctorate in Planning, Governance, and Globalization from Virginia Tech, an MS in Geography from Virginia Tech, and a BA in Geography from UNC Chapel Hill. Additionally, he served on several boards of local governments and nonprofits. Trevor lives in the Piedmont Triad.