5.13.22 | What We Do
Atinuke Akintola Diver ’03 (JD ’06) holds a full-time job as executive director of Durham CAN (Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods), a faith-based community nonprofit that works to improve the lives of Durham communities by…
Even though Jason Walsh ’06 has some high-profile fitness clients — a Hollywood A-list that has included Amy Adams, Matt Damon and Jennifer Aniston — they don’t outshine his work with less stellar folks. But the star power provided just… read more
The paint has the consistency of sour cream. Some of it is transparent, like pantyhose; some opaque, like tights. Some shimmers as if wet, mimicking an eye or the scales of a fish. Susan Brubaker Knapp ’94 (MA) uses them all — plus yards… read more
Two Carolina alumnae turned their passion for photography into a nonprofit to raise money for global conservation causes. Photographers Ami Vitale ’94 and Eileen Mignoni ’09 (MA) have spent… read more
Alex Floch ’17, like a lot of us, has been putting on a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic. He wears one for safety, but he wears another to bring smiles to strangers’ faces and whip up excitement among tens of thousands of NFL football… read more
Technology blogger Geoff Manaugh and his wife Nicola Twilley, a contributor to The New Yorker, say things that originated in quarantine have often become part of everyday life — for example, passports. read more
It took Carly Collette ’17 and her crew only minutes to fly an Air Force KC-46 refueling tanker from Burlington to skim the top of Kenan Stadium before the Homecoming game against Wake Forest, but her approach to that moment took five intense… read more
Michelle Shomo Pierce ’00 stands at the head of her classroom, a stack of red cups on the table in front of her. On the whiteboard behind her, she’s drawn a series of arrows. Right. Left. Down. Up. “OK, my arm is a robot. It will only… read more
Ami Vitale ’94, a photographer and filmmaker, and Eileen Mignoni ’09 (MA), a visual journalist, have spent years behind their cameras documenting environmental issues and exploring the intersections of nature, culture, social justice and… read more
A 474-page coffee table tome by Ron Smith ’79 covers the first 70 years of UNC basketball with meticulously researched depth and breadth and full-page glossies. Lennie Rosenbluth ’57 calls it “the Mona Lisa of Tar Heel basketball books.” read more