Aaron Sarver was raised in Eastern NC and graduated from public schools – New Hanover High School in Wilmington and N.C. State University with a B.A. in economics. 

He moved to west Asheville in 2009. For six years he worked as the Communications Director of the Campaign for Southern Equality traveling across the South in the fight for LBGTQ equality. From 2019 to 2024, he worked at the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office. As Director of Public Affairs for Sheriff Miller he worked to strengthen community relationships and respond to the crisis of the opioid epidemic. In 2022, then A.G. Josh Stein toured the Buncombe County Detention Facility and called its drug treatment program the gold standard for the state of North Carolina.

In his free time, Aaron plays basketball, enjoys growing veggies in his yard and tending his apple trees. Helping on harvest days at 10 Mile Farm in Old Fort is one of his happy places.