Convenient parking is available at the Ram’s Deck ($1.50/hr) or along Stadium Drive, if available, after 5 p.m.

Leoneda Inge is WUNC’s Changing Economy Reporter. She came to North Carolina in 2001 and has spent most of that time tracking job loss and other major changes in the state’s tobacco, furniture and textile industries. In 2006, Leoneda and a team of journalists won an Alfred I. DuPont Award from Columbia University for the series North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty. Leoneda has won several other first place awards including three Gracie Awards from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television, several Associated Press Awards and a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Leoneda has worked in commercial and public radio for many years and has produced reports for news magazines on NPR, Marketplace and Voice of America.  She is a graduate of Florida A&M University. In 1995, Leoneda was named a Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. In 2008, she received her master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University where she was a Knight-Bagehot Journalism Fellow in business and economics. In 2009, Leoneda traveled to Tokyo, Japan as a fellow with the Foreign Press Center. More.

Hodding Carter III was professor of leadership and public policy at UNC and has extensive experience in journalism, politics and government, and higher education. A graduate of Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, he came to Chapel Hill after retiring as president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He is chair of the UNC Press Development Council, a member of the Faculty’s Honorary Degrees Committee and is involved in several Center for the Study of the American South projects and programs. Nationally, Carter is best remembered as the spokesman for the U.S. State Department during the Iran hostage crisis in the late 1970s. He has written two books and contributed to numerous others, including most recently After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy and Security in the Information Age, a collection of essays edited by Ronald Goldfarb. More.

Ferrel Guillory is professor of the practice in the School of Media and Journalism. He is founding director of the UNC Program on Public Life, which has worked to bring university scholarship to bear on the public agenda and leadership in North Carolina and the South. Guillory is co-founder of EducationNC, a nonprofit organization launched in January 2015 devoted to covering and analyzing public education news in North Carolina. Through MDC Inc., a Durham-based nonprofit, at which he is a senior fellow, Guillory has co-authored eight The State of the South reports (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010-11, 2014).  He also co-authored the book, The Carolinas: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: An Exploration of Social and Economic Trends, 1924-99 (Duke Press, 1999). Before academia, Guillory spent more than 25 years as a newspaper and magazine journalist. During his time at The News & Observer in Raleigh, he was the newspaper’s state capital columnist, Washington correspondent and editorial page editor. More.

Peter Hans ’91 counsels the private sector on public affairs at the law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough. He previously worked as senior policy advisor to three members of the United States Senate and guided numerous political campaigns. Peter was elected by the legislature to the State Board of Community Colleges (1997-2003) and the UNC Board of Governors (2003-2015), where he served as the chair from 2012 until 2014. He earned degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and Harvard University. Peter currently serves on the State Banking Commission, two corporate boards, as a trustee of Rex Hospital, and as a director of the General Alumni Association.

Rick Henderson ’79 became managing editor of Carolina Journal in 2009. He had worked the previous nine years as an editorial writer and columnist for daily newspapers in Las Vegas, Riverside, Ca., and Denver. Henderson was an editor and reporter for Investor’s Business Daily and the Los Angeles Business Journal. From 1989-98, he was with Reason magazine, splitting time between the publication’s Los Angeles headquarters as managing editor and its D.C. bureau as Washington editor. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and other publications. Henderson was awarded first place in editorial writing by the Colorado Associated Press (2006-07) and was part of the Curtis Media Group team winning first place in broadcast political coverage of election night 2014 by the North Carolina AP. Henderson received his bachelor’s degree in political science from UNC. More.

William E. Leuchtenburg is William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of history and a renowned scholar of American political history. He is the author of more than a dozen books and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award for historical writing of enduring public significance. Leuchtenburg has recently served as a consultant for the major renovation of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum at Hyde Park. He has worked with documentary film maker Ken Burns on his films for more than thirty years, including “The Roosevelts,” in which he appears several times on camera. He wrote the presidential election analysis for NBC on election nights and covered presidential inaugurations for three other networks. For Bill Clinton’s first inaugural address in 1993, he was at the CBS anchor desk with Dan Rather and Charles Kuralt. Leuchtenburg has most recently published “The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton.” More.

Theodore M. Shaw is the Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Center for Civil Rights at UNC’s School of Law. He teaches civil procedure and advanced constitutional law/fourteenth amendment. Before joining the faculty of UNC Law School, from 2008-14 Shaw taught at Columbia University Law School, where he was professor of professional practice. During that time, he was also “Of Counsel” to the law firm of Norton Rose Fulbright. His practice involved civil litigation and representation of institutional clients on matters concerning diversity and civil rights. Professor Shaw was the fifth director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., for which he worked in various capacities over the span of twenty-six years. He has litigated education, employment, voting rights, housing, police misconduct, capital punishment and other civil rights cases in trial and appellate courts, and in the United States Supreme Court. More.

Sarah Treul Roberts is assistant professor of political science specializing in American political institutions, with an emphasis on the U.S. Congress and courts. She earned her B.A. in political science and psychology from Wellesley College and her M.A and Ph.D. (both in political science) from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include the voting behavior of U.S. senators, bicameralism and state delegations in Congress. She is currently working on a project analyzing how a decline in state economic interests has contributed to polarization in Congress. Some of Truel’s publications include Assessing Strategic Voting in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primaries: The Role of Electoral Context, Institutional Rules and Negative Votes. Public Choice, 161 (Dec. 2014): 517-536, with D. Sunshine Hillygus; Competitive Primaries and Party Division in Congressional Elections. Electoral Studies, 35 (Sept. 2014): 140-149, with Caitlin E. Jewitt; and Indirect Presidential Influence, State-level Approval, and Voting in the U.S. Senate. American Politics Research, 40 (March 2012): 355-379, with Caitlin E. Dwyer. More.