Hometown Heroes

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Tiffany Cheshire. Cheshire has been the principal of Phillips Middle School for 7 years and was just honored as Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School's Principal of the Year. Cheshire came into Phillips at a...

This week's Hometown Heroes, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, are Leah Nelson and Maya Powell. Nelson and Powell are graduate students at UNC and co-chairs of UNC's Climate Crisis Committee. They have been working to make campus more sustainable with renewable energy...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Lloyd Kramer! After 38 years as a history professor at UNC and the director Carolina Public Humanities, Kramer is retiring. While Carolina Public Humanities existed before him, Kramer has overseen a...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Grace Beeler. Beeler is the creator of the Appropriate Sanitation Institute. In her her studies at NC State, she found that over half the worlds population do not have adequate sanitation. She worked on a...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Manfred Makor. Manfred Makor is a teacher at Northwood High School in Pittsboro. He's also the founder of the non-profit Legacy Sports Academy. After fleeing his home country of Liberia due to the civil...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Daniel Johnson. Johnson is a PhD student at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. He's also an army veteran that served as a journalist for the 101st Airborne division. He worked with artillery...