Joe C. Farr III

While at Yale, he was co-President of the Black Business Alliance and he created, organized, and produced the SOM Night Live sketch comedy program (inspired by Saturday Night Live (1975)).

Graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Math in 1994.

Joe Farr was born in Washington, District of Columbia and moved to Raleigh, North Carolina when he was two. He attended Duke University where he was a four-year basketball team manager for Mike Krzyzewski from 1995-98. He was a head manager for Duke's 32-4 Elite Eight team as a senior. Farr graduated with a BA in Economics and a minor in Chemistry. Upon graduation, Farr went on to serve as an ACC Futures Intern for the Atlantic Coast Conference and Home Team Sports. In this capacity, he supervised the operations of the ACC Men's & Women's Cross Country and the ACC Men's and Women's Soccer Tournaments and banquets. After a ten-month stint in the ACC Futures Internship, Farr was called up to the Worldwide Leader in Sports in Bristol, Connecticut.

Graduated from Duke University with a BA in Economics and a minor in Chemistry in 1998.

He joined ESPN in 1999 where he functioned first as a Program Associate and later as a Strategic Program Planner. In these roles, he acted as the program director for Black History Month, Track & Field, Swimming & Diving, and Cycling. He negotiated the contracts for the Boston Marathon, USA Track & Field package, and the World Swimming & Diving Championships and worked as the Program Planner for college basketball, college football, and NCAA Championships. ESPN also provided Farr with his first taste of production.

Farr was the executive producer on four of ESPN's Black History Month programs: Seasons of Change: The African American Athlete (2002), Seasons of Change: The African American Athlete (2003), Relatively Speaking: George Foreman (2002), and Relatively Speaking: Joe Dumars (2003).

The 2002 installment of Seasons of Change won the NAMIC Vision Award for Best News/Informational Program. After over four years at ESPN, Farr left to attend the Yale School of Management where he was selected as a Yale MBA Scholar.

Graduated from the Yale School of Management with an MBA in Marketing and Leadership in 2005.

Currently co-authoring a biography on Willie Jeffries with Bob Gillespie of The State newspaper. The book chronicles the story of how a youngster from Union, South Carolina, rose from a single-parent childhood to become not only one of the legendary coaches in Black College Football and an icon in South Carolina, but also an historic figure: the first African-American head football coach at a major NCAA Division I-A school. [April 2009]