Joe was hired as the Sports Information Director at the Academy in September of 2018. Prior to coming to Buzzards Bay, Joe held the same position at Anna Maria College in Paxton, Mass.
Before becoming a Sports Information Director, Joe spent time as an assistant baseball coach at Anna Maria College and Fitchburg State University. He also spent eight Summers working for the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League as a public address announcer and radio broadcaster as well as working for the Cape League as an official scorer.
Joe graduated with his Associate's Degree in Communications from Dean College in 2009 and returned to Dean to earn his Bachelor's Degree in Sociology in 2012.
Joe currently resides in Milford, Mass with his wife Meghan and their two sons Carl and Caden.
Jim McKenna is the newly appointed Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Since earning his Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, Jim has served in a variety of academic and federal agency positions. Academic appointments include Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Williams College where he taught and served as Associate Director for the Williams College-Mystic Seaport Maritime Studies Program; Professor of Marine Biology and Chair of the Ocean Studies department at Maine Maritime Academy; and Associate Dean for the Bartlett College of Science and Mathematics at Bridgewater State University. Jim’s agency work includes serving as a National Park Service Research Learning Center coordinator in Acadia National Park and as Associate Director of Research for the Maine Sea Grant Program. Jim’s interest in the marine world extends into his personal life; he is a passionate sailor and enjoys vacationing with his wife and two children along the coast of Maine and Cape Cod.
