N OT E D. WHAT AN HONOR Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger was elected in December as chair of the North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coalition, a bipartisan organization that represents the state’s large and midsized cities. “I look forward to working with my fellow mayors in the coming year,” Pam says. “Through our work together, including how we share strategies and ideas, we make our state and our cities great places to live, work, study and play.”
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GlaxoSmithKline, in partnership with the Triangle Community Foundation, chose 10 nonprofits from the area in December to gift $50,000 as part of the 2021 IMPACT Awards. Recipients of the 25th annual award were chosen based on exceptional contributions to life-improving and sustaining resources, supporting health and offering services to those in need. The IMPACT recipients from Orange County were hunger relief organization PORCH Chapel Hill-Carrboro and youth programming nonprofit Boomerang.
Miranda Carr, Chapel
Hill resident and chief investment officer for The Trust Company of Tennessee, was named to the 2022 class of American Bankers Association 40 under 40 in wealth management. This honor recognizes wealth management and fiduciary professionals who are committed to the highest standards of achievement at work and in their communities. Michelle Bolas was named UNC’s chief
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center named Dr. Wendy Brewster as its
first associate director of diversity, equity and inclusion. Wendy helped establish the center’s Equity Council in 2020 and serves as an Executive Core co-chair. She is a professor for UNC School of Medicine’s PHOTO BY HUTH PHOTO
PlayMakers Repertory Company hosted a
celebration of beloved professor and resident company member Ray Dooley in December to mark his retirement after 30 years with the UNC Department of Dramatic Art. Ray acted in 104 productions with PlayMakers and served as a department chair and head of UNC’s Professional Actor Training Program, a rigorous three-year Master of Fine Arts degree. To support the program, the theater Send us your established the Ray noteworthy moments! Dooley Artistic Excellence Fund. From births
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innovation officer and executive director of Innovate Carolina, a universitywide initiative that focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship. Michelle joined UNC in 2011 and has led the university’s Innovation Roadmap strategic plan for the past decade. In 2019, she helped the school achieve its first designation as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity Institution by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. “Innovation remains an important element of the university’s strategic plan,” says UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz. “I am delighted that Michelle is at the helm of those efforts.”
launched at the Piedmont Food Processing Center in Hillsborough, were awarded a regional impact grant from NC IDEA in November. “Through this grant program, WE Power Food will collaborate with NC-NIK to provide shared kitchen managers with the tools they need to help female food entrepreneurs succeed with their businesses,” says Sue Ellsworth, manager of the Piedmont Food Processing Center and co-founder of WE Power Food.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is also director of the Center for Women’s Health Research at UNC.
In February, The Chamber For a Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro announced that the four people were appointed by the chair-elect for one-year terms on the Chamber’s Board of Directors are: • Chris Peronto, health care executive • Michael Rodriguez, Subway multi-unit owner • Ellen Shannon, president, Triangle Media Partners • La-Tasha Best-Gaddy, founder and CEO of Infinity Bridges and chair of the Black Business Alliance of Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Additionally, six members concluded their service on the Chamber’s board at the end of 2021: • Lydia Lavelle, former mayor of Carrboro, four years