UNC Alumni help guide Covenant Scholars through deep questions and sleepless nights

Posted Mar 22, 2016
A year after graduating from Carolina, Emerson Evans was waiting tables at the mall, working long hours to pay his bills during a tough recession. Now, eight years after graduating from Carolina, Evans is a project manager at the United States Department of Health and Human Services, overseeing a portfolio of public health grants worth more than $20 million. (UNC.edu)

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