Bryan Gentry

Bryan Gentry is a communications director at the University of South Carolina with more than 15 years of experience in higher education communications and marketing. He worked at two private colleges in Virginia before joining South Carolina’s flagship university. He has worked on award-winning projects including a viewbook that received a national CASE Circle of Excellence Award and a brand video that received three Telly Awards. As chair of the Heterodox Academy Campus Community at the University of South Carolina, he organizes speaker events and other programs to foster a culture of constructive dialogue, free speech and academic freedom. He has presented at the Heterodox Academy national conference and is a contributing writer to the Open Inquiry initiative of Discourse Magazine.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Southern Virginia University and a master’s in business administration from the University of Lynchburg. Prior to his work in higher education, he was a reporter for daily newspapers in Virginia and North Carolina.