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MCNC Honored at the White House

A Triangle non-profit is being honored at the White House today.  MCNC has been named a “Champion of Change” for its work in providing broadband to rural North Carolina.  Joe Freddoso is the President and CEO of MCNC.  He says the first of their two major projects is almost complete.

Joe Freddoso:  Particularly in rural areas, they were going to run up against the cap and fibre availability in rural North Carolina fairly quickly, over the next five to seven years. So our build directly addresses that.  That’s who we serve through the NC Research and Education Network that MCNC runs.

Freddoso says public and private organizations provided $144-million to build the broadband infrastructure needed in eastern and western North Carolina.

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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