With twelve years of youthwork experience, Gregg has worked in positions as a street outreach worker, coordinator and director of various youth programs. Since February 2000, he has served as the first Executive Director of the United Teen Equality Center (UTEC) in Lowell, MA. In this position, Gregg has helped build a mission that emphasizes young people as agents of social change, particularly targeting those youth most often overlooked and labeled as “at-risk.” Over the past three years, he has worked with a Board of both young people and adults to solidify their mission that blends a drop-in safe haven component with a more structured youth development and grassroots organizing program.

He also serves on the Board of several other community organizations in Lowell. With an interest in Southeast Asian culture stemming from his work with gang-involved Southeast Asian youth in the Boston area, he spent two years in Hanoi, Vietnam gaining fluency in Vietnamese language before beginning his work at UTEC. As a research fellow, he conducted a study on the redevelopment of social work in Vietnam gaining fluency in the Vietnamese language and also worked as the Residential Coordinator and History Lecturer for American students studying abroad at Hanoi National University. Before working in Vietnam, Gregg coordinated various youth programs within such organizations as the Arab Community Center for Economic Social Services in Dearborn, MI, Maverick Family Support Program in East Boston, MA, and ROCA, Inc. in both Chelsea and Revere, MA.

In 1993, Gregg received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, majoring in East Asian Studies. In 1997, he received his Masters of Social Work from the University of Michigan, focusing upon the administration of non-profit organizations. In 2001, he was selected as a Fellow of the National Youth Employment Coalition’s New Leaders Academy. He is also completing a Masters degree in Southeast Asian Studies specializing in pre-modern Vietnamese history from the University of Michigan.