Mark Hass is an author and former newspaper journalist and public relations executive currently teaching as a professor of practice at Arizona State University.

His debut work of fiction, The Days Before Tomorrow, is an historical novel set in Western Ukraine that examines the impact of anti-Semitism on the lives of a young man and his sister in the years between the two world wars. He is co-author of Finding Joy, a practical exploration of Jewish mysticism, published in 1996 by Jewish Lights Press, and the author of Acts of Loving Kindness, a history of the Free Loan movement in Detroit’s immigrant communities, published in 1995. He has written chapters in two important marketing textbooks: Reputation Management, 3rd Edition (“Integrated Communications in an era of Social Media”) and The Handbook of Strategic Public Relations and Integrated Communications (Social Media and Public Relations in China), and has been a contributor to marketing media and a speaker at industry, government and university conferences.

Prior to assuming his current teaching position in August 2016, he spent 20 years as a digital entrepreneur and later as a senior marketing and communications executive.

Earlier, he was a reporter and editor at various newspapers in New York, Miami and Detroit, and won awards writing about health care, science and technology.

He is the only American-born child of Eastern European immigrants, grew up in Brooklyn, attended public schools and is a proud graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo with a degree in English. He has lived and worked abroad in China and Germany and now resides with his family near Phoenix.

He can be contacted at mark.hass@peconicfirst.com.