Blake Adams serves as the Program Coordinator for the UM chapter of the Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program at the School of Education. A Mississippi native, he holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Mississippi. Blake has more than ten years of public service experience previous to his current university position, including the Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library where he earned two Mississippi Library Commission Public Relations Awards. He has also worked for the City of Austin Public Library. Outside of work, Blake considers himself a paraprofessional geek. His interests include IT, Photoshop, comically bad and obscure film, cooking, biking, the love of his life, Kim, and their two dogs, Mojo and Silas.