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Meet the Mayors: Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee

Mayor Barbara Foushee
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Mayor Barbara Foushee

Our second interview for Due South’s series of conversations with Triangle area mayors is with Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee. Foushee shares her family’s history of political and civic engagement, talks about balancing life as a part-time mayor with her full-time job, and delves into Carrboro’s lawsuit against Duke Energy.

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Barbara Foushee, Mayor of Carrboro

  • Read more about the town of Carrboro's lawsuit filed against Duke Energy.
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.
Rachel McCarthy is a producer for "Due South." She previously worked at WUNC as a producer for "The Story with Dick Gordon." More recently, Rachel was podcast managing editor at Capitol Broadcasting Company where she developed narrative series and edited a daily podcast. She also worked at "The Double Shift" podcast as supervising producer. Rachel learned about audio storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Prior to working in audio journalism, she was a research assistant at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.