MOLLY MCWILLIAMS WILKINS

Wilkins has decades of experience in the communications, leadership, and management fields. Wilkins started her training through the internationally recognized Enterprise Rent-a-Car Management Trainee Program, learning the ropes of managing groups and servant leadership before finishing her undergraduate degree at Mercer University. She would go on to participate and graduate from Leadership Macon, Middle Georgia Regional Commission’s Champions, and Young Gamechangers through Georgia Forward.

Wilkins has a wealth of experience working with various digital media as a producer, web editor, social media manager, and writer for platforms such as the Knight Foundation, 13WMAZ, WGXA News, Raycom Media, Paste Magazine, and others. She has been running her website, Love- Molly Kate, and social media channels for well over a decade reaching more than 200,000 people each month.

Wilkins successfully earned her Master of Arts degree in Communications and Leadership with concentrations in College Teaching & Digital Media from Gonzaga University. She also garnered certifications in 200 RYT (registered yoga training) from Homegrown Yoga, AIReal Yoga from Sparks Yoga, kids yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Reflective Structured Dialogue through the Fanning Institute at the University of Georgia.

Wilkins was accepted into the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences Communication Studies Ph.D. program at The University of Georgia. Her research interests focused on the intersection of social & digital media with the semiotics of Southern symbols, the rhetoric of Southern symbols, and the rhetoric of American manifest destiny and how it has transformed Evangelical Christianity. Wilkins’ thesis “The Duality of the Southern Thing: How New Media is Providing a Paradigm Shift for the Semiotics of Southern Symbols” was chosen as a competitive paper presentation for the Central States Communication Association’s 2023 conference.