Meet Jonathan Reckford, the speaker for Sunday's UNC spring commencement

Posted May 9, 2019
Jonathan Reckford is UNC's 2019 Spring Commencement Speaker. After graduating from North Carolina in 1984, he went on to a career in business, working at Goldman Sachs, Marriott, and The Walt Disney Co., before becoming the executive pastor of a Minnesota church. In 2005, he became CEO of Habitat for Humanity, a position he's held ever since. (Daily Tar Heel)

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