Tim Parsons - Mississippi Program Co-Director
Tim Parsons has been a versatile, invaluable member of the full-time team since 1997, deftly juggling a variety of key jobs. During the non-summer months, Tim divides his VISIONS time as a jack-of-all-trades with responsibilities as varied as creating and designing marketing materials to troubleshooting technology to ordering and organizing first aid supplies, tools and equipment, and other materials for our program sites.
A big part of his job (and one of his favorite parts) is communicating with families by phone, email, and in person, traveling throughout the northeast meeting potential participants and their families. His long tenure, variety of roles, and many years helping to lead summer programs make Tim a knowledgeable, well rounded, and committed representative.
Summers usually find Tim in the field where he has been the director, the carpenter, or the first-aid honcho on programs in Alaska, Dominica, South Carolina, Australia, Montana, and Mississippi. Tim is an aspiring computer geek, a newbie indoor climber, a recovering comic book collector, and a fan of both noir and near-future literary fiction. He is something of a film buff (ask him how he got hired onto VISIONS some time) and a supporter of both the fine and performing arts. He lends his free time and his carpentry skills to the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival and, more recently, to the Allenberry Playhouse, where he took a summer off from VISIONS to help get a brand new Conservatory Program off the ground. Tim holds a degree in Secondary Education from Penn State University.