Mark Cassity - Director/Steward
A resident of the Triad for over 30 years, Mark has spent a career working for justice issues through various intentional communities and nonprofit arenas. Perhaps more than any other source, these efforts and immersions have guided and largely molded Mark’s spirit life in both traditional and nontraditional settings. His work of well over two decades among individuals, families and a culture living with HIV has strengthened a conviction that community, as our natural way of being and loving, is a transformative healing modality unto itself. Thus, one primary call of The Friendship Table is to remove the frequently self-imposed obstacles that prevent us from living into our authentic lives and selves, which we discover with and through one another. Welcoming (and vulnerably daring to be) “the stranger” is central to this ideology.
Mark attended school at East Tennessee and Valdosta (Georgia) State Universities and holds an M.A. in Liberal Studies from New York University. He resides near downtown Greensboro with his wife, Anne, and has two daughters – Liza and Molly – who both currently live in New York City. He remains a closeted amateur folk/blues guitarist and has a checkered, lifelong relationship with golf.