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Leoneda Inge
linge@wunc.org
Leoneda Inge
Leoneda Inge is WUNC's Changing Economy Reporter. She came to North Carolina in 2001 and has spent most of that time tracking job loss and other major changes in the state's Tobacco, Furniture, and Textile industries. In 2006, Leoneda and a team of journalists won an Alfred I. DuPont Award from Columbia University for the series - North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty.
Leoneda has won several other first place awards - including three Gracie Awards from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television, several Associated Press Awards and a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
Leoneda has worked in commercial and public radio for many years and has produced reports for news magazines on NPR, Marketplace, and Voice of America. Leoneda is a graduate of Florida A&M University. In 1995, Leoneda was named a Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. In 2008, she received her Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University where she was a Knight-Bagehot Journalism Fellow in Business and Economics. In 2009, Leoneda will travel to Tokyo, Japan as a fellow with the Foreign Press Center.
Reports and features by Leoneda Inge
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Biden Puts Cree on Pedestal
Friday, March 19 2010 Leoneda IngeVice President Joe Biden visited Research Triangle Park yesterday, touting the growing success of Cree Incorporated.
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Soul Census Ambassadors Work to Reach Undercounted
Tuesday, March 16 2010 Leoneda IngeIn Wake County, ministers at African-American churches have been deputized to help find some of the undercounted.
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Tribal Leaders Promote Census
Monday, March 15 2010 Leoneda IngeAmerican Indian leaders are encouraging tribal members to fill out census forms when they arrive in the mail this week.
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The Creative Economy Is Big Business
Tuesday, March 02 2010 Leoneda IngeNorth Carolina's creative economy is a $41 billion business--and growing.
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Duke Creates Haitian Creole Course
Friday, February 26 2010 Leoneda IngeDuke University created a last-minute course for those who are preparing to help Haitians during the recovery.
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Learning To Read At 60
Tuesday, February 16 2010 Leoneda IngeNationally-recognized authors addressed the need for improved literacy at a fundraiser in Chapel Hill yesterday.
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Hickory Area Deals with High Unemployment
Friday, January 29 2010 Leoneda IngeOne region of the state struggling the most economically is a cluster of communities making up Hickory, Lenoir and Morganton.
