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In this episode, we’re talking to Sean Bynum, operations director for Step Up Wilmington, a nonprofit helping folks find jobs and build skills to create a vibrant workforce. We talk about how the pandemic is impacting their work, how essential jobs are some of the lowest paid and with the least benefits and how Step Up is preparing for the end of the pandemic and future disasters.
Maddie – an African-American woman living with her family in New Hanover County – is part of the American middle-class. But, as we talk, you’ll hear the reality of her every day from just making rent to overcoming systemic racism. The hope is these conversations will entertain and inform and give...
Published 11/12/20
On this episode, we’re talking to Linda Thompson. She was selected by New Hanover County to lead its new Office of Diversity and Equity. The new department was announced in June. Thompson came from the Wilmington Police Department where she last served as Diversity and Inclusion Officer. We talk...
Published 09/16/20