Ivy Vance
Ivy Vance is data-driven and passionate about systems-level change. She graduated from East Carolina University with an MBA in 2020 but quickly realized her passion for nonprofits and servant leadership during her employment with United Way of Forsyth County, leading her to enroll in the Master of Public Administration / Public Affairs program at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she graduated in 2025. She began working for UWGT in February 2025, where she is focused on improving processes and utilizing technology to increase efficiency and effectiveness on behalf of the communities she serves.
What Drew Me to UWGT?
I managed a Subway for 10 years while attending ECU and attempting to find a career guided by making the world a better place. I graduated at the height of the COVID pandemic and landed in the City of Winston-Salem, driven to do more for the community. By 2021, during a City of Winston-Salem United Way campaign, I recognized a former Subway customer, Kelsey Camarena, who was working at United Way of Forsyth County (NC). Through our shared commitment to social justice and economic mobility, she invited me to apply for a job in her office. We worked there together for a year, and when she eventually moved on to UWGT, I felt compelled to once again join her team.
Top 5 Strengths, per the CliftonStrengths Assessment:
- Learner — Dedicated to learning and continually improving
- Ideation — Skilled at finding connections between seemingly disparate phenomena
- Individualization — Adept at figuring out how different people can work together productively
- Input — Possessing a need to collect and archive information, ideas, etc.
- Analytical — Harnessing the ability to think about every factor that might affect a situation