Civic Conversations

Jun 5, 2020

Reflect and have a conversation

Summary: IEI is hosting a conversation around the issues of parenting, policing and systemic racism that the people of our state and nation are grappling with right now. This episode’s… 

May 29, 2020

Civic Conversations In Time Of Pandemic

Summary: Leslie Boney, Director of the Institute for Emerging Issues, hosts a series of virtual conversations discussing the impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19) and some of the ways our state is… 

Apr 29, 2020

First in Future: Paula Henderson

Summary: This episode of First in Future features Paula Henderson of SAS. We get to hear about growing up on a farm in rural eastern North Carolina and how it… 

Mar 10, 2020

First in Future: “the Poetry Fox” Chris Vitiello part 2

Summary: Poets can sometimes tell us something we haven’t thought of before, force us to confront a truth we’d rather avoid or help us see something in a way we… 

Feb 11, 2020

First in Future: Director of community engagement at Forward Wilkes LB Prevette

Summary: We all know people in our hometowns or neighborhoods who have a way of bringing people and ideas together in a community, big or small. Some may call them… 

Nov 12, 2019

First in Future: Mayor of Troy, North Carolina Sherri Allgood

Summary: Being a mayor is hard. How do you deal with a bypass that diverts traffic around your city? Will improvements to a struggling part of town affect property values… 

Aug 20, 2019

First in Future: Director of the Mountain Area Workforce Board Nathan Ramsey

Summary: We are living in strange economic times. Right now we have a greater number of jobs in the US – 7 million – than we have people officially looking… 

Aug 13, 2019

First in Future: Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at Appalachian State Matt Dull and Entrepreneur Ged Moody

Summary: Many people in NC think we’ve forgotten how to talk to each other. That’s why the Institute for Emerging Issues is taking part in the Civic Conversations Project with… 

Jul 26, 2019

IEI welcomes Pearce Godwin to Civic Conversations team

The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) is excited to announce that Pearce Godwin, founder and CEO of Listen First Project, will be leading IEI’s Civic Conversation Initiative this summer. Since… 

May 30, 2019

Meet Cyrus Rad, Our Caldwell Fellows Volunteer

Major: Electrical Engineering/Physics Minor: French Classification: Junior Hometown: Durham, NC  Caldwell Fellows Class of 2021 and part of the NCSU Men’s Soccer Team       The Caldwell Fellows Program…