Mark Pearson serves as Broadband Coordinator for Communities Unlimited, a nonprofit community development organization serving across the Southern US (AL, AR, LA, MS, OK, TN, TX). CU’s Broadband Team helps local communities to understand broadband access and needs, the historic investments underway, and to prepare for deployment, internet adoption and digital literacy opportunities in order to fully realize the local value of these investments. Prior work for CU includes supporting small, rural community basic water infrastructure funding, project finance with the Texas Water Development Board, as operations/finance director for a local non-profit in Waco, TX, and lecturer in Economics, Baylor University. BA, MS Economics, Baylor University