Leoneda Inge
Host, "Due South"Leoneda Inge is the co-host of "Due South" 鈥� 吉彩网网站's new daily radio show. She was formerly 吉彩网网站鈥檚 race and southern culture reporter, the first public radio journalist in the South to hold such a position. She explores modern and historical constructs to tell stories of poverty and wealth, health and food culture, education and racial identity. Leoneda also co-hosted the podcast Tested, allowing for even more in-depth storytelling on those topics.
Leoneda鈥檚 most recent work of note includes 鈥�A Tale of Two North Carolina Rural Sheriffs,鈥� produced in partnership with Independent Lens; a series of reports on 鈥�Race, Slavery, Memory & Monuments,鈥� winner of a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists; and the series 鈥�When a Rural North Carolina Clinic Closes,鈥� produced in partnership with the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Leoneda is the recipient of several awards, including Gracie awards from the Alliance of Women in Media, the Associated Press, and the Radio, Television, Digital News Association. She was part of 吉彩网网站 team that won an Alfred I. duPont Award from Columbia University for the group series 鈥� 鈥�North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty.鈥� In 2017, Leoneda was named 鈥淛ournalist of Distinction鈥� by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Leoneda is a graduate of Florida A&M University and Columbia University, where she earned her Master's Degree in Journalism as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics. Leoneda traveled to Berlin, Brussels and Prague as a German/American Journalist Exchange Fellow and to Tokyo as a fellow with the Foreign Press Center 鈥� Japan.
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Jeff Tiberii and Leoneda Inge unpack actors Jason Isaacs' and Parker Posey's Southern accents in Season 3 of The White Lotus. -
Leoneda Inge sits down with two curators at the North Carolina Museum of Art to discuss the new exhibition, The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure. -
If you live in North Carolina, or anywhere else in the U.S., you鈥檝e probably heard all about PFAS. These are human-made chemicals that are long lasting. Now, people in the eastern part of the state are trying to protect themselves from these chemicals with a high-tech water filtration system that filters out PFAS. -
Leoneda Inge chats with Chef Melanie Wilkerson about her Durham roots and her new role as executive chef at Counting House in downtown Durham, as well as her role as co-founder of the nonprofit Kind Kitchen Group, alongside her wife, Chef Sicily Sierra. -
The federal government has cut a program that made sure schools and food banks could buy fresh food from farmers. The Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina is bracing for the aftermath. -
Leoneda Inge sits down with state treasurer Brad Briner to discuss his planned approach to the role. -
In Due South's latest edition of "Meet the Mayors," co-host Leoneda Inge talks with Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer about the logistical and political complexities of leading her city during a time of recovery and rebuilding. -
Why online Gen Z folks hate millennials鈥� tendency to turn the inside of modernist homes 鈥済ray and boring.鈥� -
Leoneda Inge talks to Emila Sutton, director of the City of Raleigh's Housing and Neighborhoods department, about a first-of-its-kind pilot program to address local homelessness. -
Due South's Leoneda Inge talks to NC State University professor Lincoln Larson about how job cuts at federal agencies can impact spring and summer travel, tourism dollars, and protected ecosystems in North Carolina.
