Who is Anaré V. Holmes?

Anaré V. Holmes (pronounced AHN-ray) operates at the critical intersection of high-stakes emergency leadership, enterprise resilience, strategic communications, and narrative storytelling to build public trust, strengthen brand equity, and unify competing stakeholders.

Whether architecting incident communications during regional crises and major events like the I-85 Bridge Collapse and Super Bowl LIII, or producing high-retention multi-platform media content, he helps organizations build alliances, mitigate risk, and articulate their core mission to multi-million audiences.

He is the recipient of the Ida B. Wells Best News Story Award from the National Newspaper Publishers Association, an Excellence in Trauma Care honoree from the State of Georgia and an NBC News inaugural #Pride30 change maker.

Holmes studied at Howard University and earned an undergraduate degree in Family and Consumer Journalism from the University of Wisconsin. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Narrative Media Writing from the University of Georgia, in addition to Firefighter and Advanced EMT certifications. 

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