Huff Templeton

Pronouns : he/him

Huff Templeton is a social entrepreneur. He is currently the Chair of the Beloved Arise Board of Directors.

Huff specializes in incubating new ideas, especially those that can promote community. He helped start an organic food store, two job placement programs, an online learning spin-off, a travel software firm, and a student volunteer organization. He also managed turnaround circumstances in several organizations.

Along with Kat Hobbs Everett, Huff is currently working to create a software hub to harness the power of Working Places, an inclusive economic development vehicle of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Huff serves on Envisioning Williamstown 2035, the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee for a western Massachusetts town. In 2022, he was a mentor for Entrepreneurship For All.

In 2020, Huff worked with Tashi and Krishan Rai, two local students, to draft warrant articles 36 & 37 which unanimously passed in the Williamstown MA Town Meeting. These articles created a duty, among Town officials, to report hate instances and obtain training on the effects of structural racism. Article 36 incorporated the work of Not In Our County, an anti-hate initiative of Multicultural Bridge and Not in Our Town.

Huff earned a Master of Business Administration from Arizona State University, a Master of Business Administration in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of the Maryland at College Park. He also studied at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Huff lives on the East Coast with his wife. Their two daughters are recent college graduates