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Leoneda Inge
Host, "Due South"Leoneda Inge is the co-host of "Due South" — WUNC's new daily radio show. She was formerly WUNC’s 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’s most recent work of note includes “A Tale of Two North Carolina Rural Sheriffs,” produced in partnership with Independent Lens; a series of reports on “Race, Slavery, Memory & Monuments,” winner of a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists; and the series “When a Rural North Carolina Clinic Closes,” 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 News Association. She was part of WUNC team that won an Alfred I. duPont Award from Columbia University for the group series – “North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty.” In 2017, Leoneda was named “Journalist of Distinction” 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 – Japan.
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Due South co-host Leoneda Inge talks to a local agronomist about this year's flash drought and the damage it's caused to various crops.
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Leoneda Inge talks with WUNC's higher education reporter Brianna Atkinson about how North Carolina's public universities are complying with a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
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Jeff Tiberii and Leoneda Inge talk with Rachel Smith, an astrophysicist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science who studies star and planet formation. She talks about her research and some of humankind's biggest questions, like – are we alone in the universe?
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Co-hosts Jeff Tiberii and Leoneda Inge chat with musician Tom Maxwell about the 1990s music scene in Chapel Hill and his new book, A Really Strange and Wonderful Time.
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Due South co-host Leoneda Inge explores college bus tours, free summer tuition at Fayetteville State and MLB and minor league pitcher Devin Sweet's HBCU pride.
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In 1957, young Virginia Williams made history as part of the Royal Ice Cream sit-in movement in Durham. Williams, now 87, was recently honored at an ice cream social at NorthStar Church of the Arts.
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Due South co-hosts Jeff Tiberii and Leoneda Inge chat with WUNC Music's Brian Burns about what makes a "song of the (Southern) summer."
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Co-host Leoneda Inge talks with an NC State researcher about the discovery of the new dinosaur species Fona herzogae, which are believed to have lived at least some of their lives in underground burrows.
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A reporter explores alternatives to nursing homes, a nonprofit leader works to demystify Medicare, and an economist talks about the role of women in the eldercare economy.
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Co-host Leoneda Inge chats with rubgy sevens star Captain Sammy Sullivan about serving her country as a soldier-athlete — and representing the U.S. at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.