GAA Honors Journalists, Entrepreneur With Distinguished Young Alumni Awards

Posted Oct 15, 2017
The GAA recognized two journalists and a nonprofit entrepreneur with its Distinguished Young Alumni Awards on Friday: Brooke Baldwin ’01, TV anchor for CNN’s afternoon news show; Nicholas Black ’13 (MBA), founder of entrepreneurial nonprofits; and Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (MA), award-winning education writer for The New York Times Magazine. (UNC.edu)

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