Profiles

Justin Parmenter has been a 7th grade language arts teacher at South Academy of International Languages in Charlotte since 2006. He was named a finalist for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Teacher of the Year in 2016. He writes about public education and politics at “Notes From the Chalkboard.”

Zachary Roth is the National Democracy Reporter for States Newsroom. He is a former national reporter at MSNBC, and the author of The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy (Crown, 2016). He has also written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic,…

Denver Dan is a documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist pursuing his M.A. in Journalism and Media at UNC Chapel Hill. He is the recipient of the William Francis Clingman Jr. Ethics Award for his work in trauma-informed journalism and enhancing existing SPJ codes.

Jaymie Baxley reports on rural health and Medicaid for NC Health News. He can be reached at jbaxley at northcarolinahealthnews.org

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Eddie Gouge is the Chair of the Mitchell County Democratic Party. He graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with a B.A. in political science and a minor in music in 1976. He went on to serve on the personal staff of several members of Congress in Washington, DC and became the Assistant…

Belle Boggs is a writer and professor who lives in Chatham County, where she also edits The Frog Trouble Times, a free environmentally-focused newsletter about parenthood and childhood, with her family.

Elizabeth Herrera, co-founder and Director of Community Advancement at Casa Azul de Wilson, is a first-generation Mexican-American dedicated to fostering education equity and cultural inclusion in rural North Carolina.

Dr. Erica Pettigrew is a primary care physician board certified in both family medicine and preventive medicine. She practices full scope primary care as well as public health in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, NC. She earned her medical and law degrees at the University of North Carolina and went on to do her residencies at…