John Damon, chief executive officer of Canopy Children’s Solutions, talks about Canopy’s annual Children’s Mental Health Summit, a two-day event, Friday, May 12, 2023, at the Sheraton Flowood The Refuge Hotel and Conference Center in Flowood, Miss.

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John Damon, chief executive officer of Canopy Children’s Solutions, talks about Canopy’s annual Children’s Mental Health Summit, a two-day event, Friday, May 12, 2023, at the Sheraton Flowood The Refuge Hotel and Conference Center in Flowood, Miss.
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by Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today
June 15, 2023
Eric J. Shelton was a 2018 corps member in Report for America, and joined the team as our first photojournalist. A native of Columbia, Miss., Eric earned his bachelor’s in photojournalism from the University of Southern Mississippi. He was a multimedia journalist for Abilene Reporter-News, chief photographer for the Hattiesburg American and photo editor for the Killeen Daily Herald before joining our team June 2018. He rejoined Mississippi Today as our health photojournalist in January 2022.
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