When Kya Johnson ’01 asked her parents for a go-kart for her 10th birthday, they told her to put together a pitch explaining why they should invest in her dream. Luckily, entrepreneurism and trailblazing ran in the family: Her father, Kenneth… read more
Mary Hill-Wagner ’06 (PhD) didn’t have a typical childhood. Her mother, Sarah Gordon, had 11 children by seven different men, was known to carry a gun and sometimes plotted to murder someone within earshot of her children. She worked… read more
Summer sunshine sparkling on the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains infused Alice Feagan’s childhood hometown of Tryon with an irresistible magic. The interplay of color and texture on White Oak Mountain awakened creativity in the budding artist,… read more
Ginna McGee Richards ’90 (JD) asks: Can landscapes become a living map of history? by Elizabeth Leland ’76 As Ginna McGee Richards ’90 (JD) drifted on her back in a creek near Charleston, South Carolina,… read more
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… read more
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