First in Future

Jul 17, 2018

IEI First in Future: Mo Green, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

First in Future: Where Emerging Ideas Take Flight is a weekly program from the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University that connects you with people thinking big thoughts about… 

Jul 17, 2018

First in Future: Executive Director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Mo Green

Summary: This week’s First in Future guest was a New York born, Georgia raised and Duke educated law clerk, and former school superintendent who’s now the head of North Carolina’s largest… 

Jul 10, 2018

IEI First in Future: Andrea Harris, NC Institute of Minority Economic Development

First in Future: Where Emerging Ideas Take Flight is a weekly program from the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University that connects you with people thinking big thoughts about… 

Jul 10, 2018

First in Future: Senior Fellow, NC Institute of Minority Economic Development Andrea Harris

Summary: This week’s First in Future guest, Andrea Harris, is the Senior Fellow at NC Institute of Minority Economic Development. The past 50 years she’s been standing up for the elderly,… 

Jul 3, 2018

IEI First in Future: Larry Hall, North Carolina Department of Military & Veterans Affairs

First in Future: Where Emerging Ideas Take Flight is a weekly program from the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University that connects you with people thinking big thoughts about… 

Jul 3, 2018

First in Future: Secretary of North Carolina Department of Military & Veterans Affairs Larry Hall

Summary: In honor of Independence Day, July 4th, First in Future’s guest is the secretary of North Carolina Department of Military & Veterans Affairs, Larry Hall. He is responsible for taking… 

Jun 19, 2018

First in Future: Executive Director of the Public School Forum of North Carolina Keith Poston

Summary: What do you think about public schools? Do teachers get paid enough? Are there too many administrators? Do we test students too much? Not enough? Should we keep students closer… 

Jun 12, 2018

First in Future: President and CEO of Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Elizabeth Brazas

Summary:  Here is a fact, North Carolina citizens are getting older. Currently, there are about 1.6 million citizens who are over 65. Over the next 20 years, one million more citizens… 

May 22, 2018

First in Future: Head of Rural Initiative for UNC School of Medicine Dr. Robert Bashford

Summary:  Seventy out of eighty rural North Carolina counties are described as “medical deserts”, meaning they have no primary care doctors. Finding solutions to rural health care is a big,…