Greg Parlier, Marketing & Debris Cleanup Communications Manager

A man of many words, most unspoken, Greg joins MountainTrue after several years at the Asheville weekly newspaper Mountain Xpress. There he covered Buncombe County government and wrote about issues ranging from public education to the region’s recovery from Tropical Storm Helene, for which he won an award from the North Carolina Press Association.

After graduating from the University of North Florida in journalism and electronic media, Greg paid his dues working for a daily newspaper in his home county in central Florida. After covering education and local government for The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla. for two years, he fled oppressive mid-state heat to the the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains in 2014, where he worked on farms, hiked the North Carolina section of the Appalachian Trail, and wrote about WNC’s robust farmers’ market scene for Asheville-based nonprofit Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. After a year hiatus writing about environmental issues in northeast Florida, Greg reestablished his Asheville cred by serving food, pouring beer and weeding gardens before making maps for Buncombe County Election Services during the pandemic era.

With MountainTrue, Greg contributes his extensive understanding of local newsgathering and Asheville’s unique culture to tell the stories of MountainTrue’s growing footprint, particularly focused on the removal of Helene-created debris from our region’s waterways. When he’s not working to connect the larger region to MountainTrue’s vital work, find him getting lost in the woods, staring longingly across expansive river valleys and riding his mountain bike on city roads, cooking up stories as he goes.

(828)258-8737
greg@mountaintrue.org