AURORA INC. APPOINTS COMMUNITY ADVOCATE TIMOTHY WEIR TO SERVE AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Aurora Inc. – the homeless housing solutions agency serving Evansville and the surrounding community – today announced that it has appointed community advocate Timothy Weir to serve as its Executive Director. He will lead and support the team of professionals delivering Aurora’s valued rapid-rehousing, re-entry, permanent supportive housing, and homeless street outreach programs locally.

Weir joins Aurora from Evansville-based Accuride Corporation, a supplier of wheel-end systems to the global commercial vehicle industry. He had served as Accuride’s Director of Communications & Government Relations since June 2011 and was a member of its executive leadership team. Weir will begin his new role on January 7, 2019, succeeding Aurora Program Director Susan Steinkamp, who has served as Interim Executive Director since October 2018.

Weir has been an active contributor to the Evansville community since relocating from Detroit in 2011. In addition to managing Accuride’s local community engagement and philanthropic efforts, he has led several community initiatives as a volunteer, including three years as co-director of the Commission on Homelessness for Evansville and Vanderburgh County (2015-2018). He was appointed to the Commission role in May 2015 by Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke. Weir was recognized by Leadership Evansville as the 2017 recipient of the Winternheimer/LaMar Award for Public Service and was named Homeless Advocate of the Year in 2016 by Aurora.

“All of us at Aurora are excited to welcome Timothy as the organization’s new Executive Director,” Carolyn Dearmond, President of the Aurora Board of Directors, said. “His passion for preventing and ending homelessness in our community is clear and inspiring. He exemplifies servant leadership through his volunteer service work, including three years as Co-Director of the Commission on Homelessness for Evansville and Vanderburgh County.  In addition to the leadership and communication skills Timothy brings to Aurora, he will be a selfless, dedicated advocate for those facing homelessness.”

“We will miss Timothy here at Accuride,” said Accuride President & CEO Rick Dauch. “We understand and fully support his decision to join and lead Aurora. Timothy’s passion to help and care for others – especially the homeless and those in need – is a calling that we respect and admire.”

About Timothy Weir

Timothy G. Weir, APR is Executive Director of Aurora Inc.  He joined Aurora from Accuride Corporation, a $1.2 billion global supplier of wheel-end systems headquartered in Evansville, where he served as Director, Communications & Government Relations and was a member of the Executive Committee. Weir’s 37-year career in corporate communications included prior roles with Textron Inc. and United Technologies Corporation, among others. He served from 2015 to 2018 as Co-Director of the Commission on Homelessness for Evansville and Vanderburgh County, to which Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke appointed him. He contributed to Leadership Evansville’s award-winning VOICE Community Visioning initiative and chaired the City of Evansville’s Clean Evansville anti-litter initiative in 2012. A resident of downtown Evansville, Weir is a 1981 graduate of Indiana University with a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications and an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America.

About Aurora Inc. Founded in 1988, Aurora leads the way in our community with three decades of experience of ending homelessness.  The Evansville-based non-profit organization began as a coalition of people and organizations addressing homelessness and transformed into an independent agency that strives to prevent and end chronic homelessness through its range of programs, services, and housing.  Aurora impacts more than 1,600 men, women, and children annually and collaborates with over 75 area agencies.  Aurora serves anyone who is homeless, chronically homeless (without a home for longer than 12 months), or at risk of becoming homeless.  Aurora was named the Southwest Indiana Chamber of Commerce Non-Profit of the Year for 2016 and “Organization of the Year” by Leadership Evansville in 2017.  For more information: http://auroraevansville.org.