Morehead-Cain Alumni landed new jobs, received accolades, stepped into new seasons of life, and more. Here’s who made a move this fall.
- Katie Ziglar ’79 was named director emerita of the Ackland Art Museum in September.
- Beverly Matthews Falls ’82 traveled as an elder with the Leadership LINKS Global Leadership Experience Tour in June. The Journey Toward Freedom tour retraced the path of Harriet Tubman along the Underground Railroad, beginning in North Carolina on Juneteenth 2025 and culminating in Ontario, Canada, on July 3. Stops included Hamilton on Broadway and the Naval Academy.
- Robinson Bradshaw public finance attorney Allen Robertson ’85 was named the 2025 recipient of the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL)’s Frederick O. Kiel Distinguished Service Award. He was honored at NABL’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., for his extraordinary decades-long service to the organization in September.
- Amy Wright ’95 joined East Carolina University as Harriot College’s David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in October.
- Dr. Cristy Page ’96 began new roles as UNC Health’s chief executive officer, dean of the UNC School of Medicine, and vice chancellor for medical affairs at UNC–Chapel Hill in November.
- Sean Wiswesser ’96 has joined the Cipher Brief as an expert national security contributing writer. His book with Naval Institute Press, Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War, will come out in April 2026. The book is based on his three decades of experience with CIA and the intelligence community.
- Executive producer Kim Freer Woodard ’96 had a Netflix documentary, Marines, released in November on the 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps.
- Galahad Clark ’99 joined Rose Claverie on the Harvest Series podcast to unpack how the shoe industry has evolved away from human health toward fashion and profit.
- Bethany Hedt-Gauthier ’99 joined the department of maternal and child health and the department of biostatistics as a professor at UNC–Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health in August.
- Janora McDuffie ’99 and Jalen McCoy ’23, former mentor–mentee duo, both performed at the Un-Erasable Solo Festival in Los Angeles in September. Jalen originally performed his show for his UNC Honors Senior Thesis, and Janora’s show debuted at Carolina at the Black Queer Studies 25th Anniversary Conference in April. They shared the same director, Professor Joseph Megel, who Jalen recognized during his Morehead-Cain senior Faculty Appreciation luncheon.
- David Jernigan ’00 took to the Truist Park pitcher’s mound to throw out the first pitch at an Atlanta Braves game in September.
- In October, Latham & Watkins LLP hired Ryan Dahl ’01 to lead its restructuring practice team in New York and Chicago.
- Marina Chase Carreker ’03 was named to Governor Josh Stein’s AI Leadership Council in September.
- In September, Primo Partners founder and chief executive officer Antonio McBroom ’08 sold the Franklin Street Ben & Jerry’s franchise to North Carolina Basketball guard Seth Trimble.
- Haley Swindal ’08 is a lead producer of Damn Yankees at the Area Stage in Washington, D.C. The critically lauded revival finished its run in November and is eyeing a move to Broadway, according to a report in The New York Times. Haley’s grandfather, George Steinbrenner, was the longtime owner of the New York MLB team.
- Jess Jolley ’10 was named by Women We Admire to the “Top 50 Women Leaders of Raleigh” list in October.
- Michael Lawson ’13 shared in November that his first book of poetry, Proof, will come out in August 2026. Proof was chosen as the 2025 Editor’s Choice for the Ashland Poetry Press’s Richard Snyder Memorial Prize.
- Katie Reilly ’15 was selected for an editor’s residency at The New York Times in October.
- Yasamin Sanii ’15 completed her pediatrics residency at Johns Hopkins in August and is now at UNC in the NRSA Primary Care Fellowship Program.
- Taya Joseph ’20, a student at the UNC School of Medicine, earned her white coat in October.
- In August, Maggie Kern ’25 and Mallie Clara Purvis ’25 were placed as two of the 15 Lead for NC Fellows in western North Carolina by UNC School of Government to aid in Hurricane Helene recovery.
