Education

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… 

Apr 29, 2020

Director’s Log | April 2020

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” –Winston Churchill, 1942 Dear Friends: None… 

Apr 28, 2020

First in Future: President of the Golden LEAF Foundation Scott Hamilton

Summary: On this First in Future episode, we talk with Scott Hamilton, president of the Golden LEAF Foundation. They have been in the news lately, working with the North Carolina… 

Apr 23, 2020

First in Future: Getting Every Home Connected

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 20, 2020

IEI Launches New Podcast and Video Series on “Connecting in Crisis”

When the Institute for Emerging Issues was faced with the most important emerging issue of our time, they did what they do best: gathered people together.  But convening looks very… 

Apr 10, 2020

First in Future: Who’s not getting the message?

Summary: Join us for part four of the series with Juvencio Rocha-Peralta (Executive Director, AMEXCAN), Jeanne Tedrow (President and CEO of the NC Center for Nonprofits) and Doug Urland (North… 

Mar 31, 2020

First in Future: The Online Learning Dilemma

Summary: The Director of the Institute for Emerging Issues, Leslie Boney, will be hosting a series of virtual conversations discussing the impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19) and some of the ways… 

Mar 24, 2020

First in Future: Connecting in Crisis

Summary: The Director of the Institute for Emerging Issues, Leslie Boney, will be hosting a series of virtual conversations discussing the impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19) and some of the ways… 

Mar 17, 2020

Coronavirus Special Preview

Summary: Coming up on Thursday, the Institute for Emerging Issues is going to be focusing on what some really creative North Carolina leaders are doing to respond to the Coronavirus.… 

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…