About us
Meet our team
Amanda Irwin
Savvy communications consultant
Amanda Irwin is a media veteran and communications leader with expertise in writing, editing, multimedia storytelling and strategic marketing in education and media environments in the United States and China. Previously, she taught Global Journalism at Wuhan University, a top-ten university in China. She was an advisor to a university president and organized the university's first scholarly conference on cannabis research in Connecticut. Amanda spent 15 years in journalism chronicling major news events and the religion landscapes of Southeastern NC, eventually founding one of five bureaus of the national Religion News Service. She has a master’s degree in Strategic Communications and is the Director of Marketing and Communications at Boys & Girls Homes of NC. She is on the Board of Directors at the Sister Cities of Wilmington and a member of Wilmington Lions Club and the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She is the President and Co-Founder of DISC Services & Consulting, LLC. Amanda likes exploring the world with her husband and children.
Dr. Darrell Irwin
Problem-solver & Researcher
Dr. Darrell D. Irwin, Director of Research and Development, is actively involved in social science research that puts policy needs into action. He is a Research Professor at the University of Connecticuty, working remotely on projects in the international development and socio-economic public/private sectors. Prior to UConn, he was a Dean of the School of Sociology and Distinguished Professor at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, China, the first American-born social science Dean in China Dr. Irwin was entrusted with the responsibility and resources to internationalize the social science disciplines at Central China Normal University, a leading university in China. He gave invited lectures at top Chinese universities and to the international diplomatic corps. Prior to his Dean position, he was a Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Dr. Irwin is the author of the book, Case Studies of the Use of Drug Testing in Corporations: Deviance in Large Organizations and scholarly articles on socio-economic subjects. Dr. Irwin is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Mandarin, Serbo-Croatian, and French. He was an owner of a SME enterprise that was sold after 6 years of successful operation. As the Co-Founder of DISC Services & Consulting LLC, with 25 years as a business consultant, Dr. Irwin gets the desired results.
Check out previous projects Student Exchange Cannabis Lab Profile University Guide
DISC Calendar & Events
Follow our team - In-Person and Projects
- Oct. 2, 2024 - Bogota, Colombia - (event cancelled; visit Wilson Center's report on Colombia-US relationship- https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/enterprise-diplomacy-colombia-fta-case-study?1721142000 and read Steven Hendrix's article on Colombia's progress on reforms https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/its-time-to-rethink-u-s-colombia-relations/ Dec. 2-7, 2024 - Bridgetown, Barbados - Sister Cities Association of Wilmington
