Leoneda Inge
Host, "Due South"Leoneda Inge is the co-host of "Due South" 鈥� 瓜神app's new daily radio show. She was formerly 瓜神app鈥檚 race and southern culture reporter, the first public radio journalist in the South to hold such a position. She explores modern and historical constructs to tell stories of poverty and wealth, health and food culture, education and racial identity. Leoneda also co-hosted the podcast Tested, allowing for even more in-depth storytelling on those topics.
Leoneda鈥檚 most recent work of note includes 鈥�A Tale of Two North Carolina Rural Sheriffs,鈥� produced in partnership with Independent Lens; a series of reports on 鈥�Race, Slavery, Memory & Monuments,鈥� winner of a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists; and the series 鈥�When a Rural North Carolina Clinic Closes,鈥� produced in partnership with the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Leoneda is the recipient of several awards, including Gracie awards from the Alliance of Women in Media, the Associated Press, and the Radio, Television, Digital 瓜神app Association. She was part of 瓜神app team that won an Alfred I. duPont Award from Columbia University for the group series 鈥� 鈥�North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty.鈥� In 2017, Leoneda was named 鈥淛ournalist of Distinction鈥� by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Leoneda is a graduate of Florida A&M University and Columbia University, where she earned her Master's Degree in Journalism as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics. Leoneda traveled to Berlin, Brussels and Prague as a German/American Journalist Exchange Fellow and to Tokyo as a fellow with the Foreign Press Center 鈥� Japan.
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Leoneda Inge talks with the author of 'Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age.' And, Triangle-area entrepreneur Giorgios Bakatsias on his more than 40 years in the restaurant business. -
Leoneda Inge chats with Bryan Reklis, director of the Carrboro Film Fest, which returns to Downtown Carrboro from Jan. 24-26. -
Leoneda Inge chats with Delores Bailey, executive director of EmPOWERment Inc. about the organization's efforts to provide more affordable housing to Chapel Hill residents. -
瓜神app鈥檚 Race, Class and Communities reporter gives Leoneda Inge a closer look at how law enforcement and immigrant advocacy organizations have prepared. -
Due South鈥檚 Leoneda Inge talks with Lenovo鈥檚 "Early Career Talent Experience" program manager, and a past participant, about the challenges many younger workers face in the post-pandemic work world. -
Due South's Leoneda Inge talks to Marq Burnett, a Nashville-based editor at The Business Journals, about the new normal in the workplace. -
A week after Rosa Parks began a bus boycott protesting segregation, several Black men played a round of golf at the whites-only Gillespie Golf Course in Greensboro, NC. -
Host Leoneda Inge talks to the author and illustrator of a new children's anthology called The New Brownies Book. -
North Carolina NASCAR legend Richard Petty's 1970 Superbird will be in the inauguration parade, but behind the scenes, politics and policies swirl. A preview of what to expect from NC reporters. -
Leoneda Inge sits down with Kenny Mann, leader of the soul and R&B group Liquid Pleasure to discuss his career and his experiences performing at presidential inaugurations.
