11.09.2021 | Awards
Empower Award Recipients
The Empower Award was introduced in 2008 to recognize individuals who were new members of the community and made an immediate impact upon engagement within MCNC’s statewide collection of outstanding technology leaders.
Empower Award Recipients
2021
- Machelle Baker Sanders, N.C. Secretary of Commerce
2019
- Jeff Whitworth, UNC Greensboro
2016
- Maurice Ferrell, UNC Chapel Hill
2015
- Lamar Owen, Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
2014
- Angie Bailey, NC Broadband
2013
- John Graham, UNC Chapel Hill
2012
- Jonathan Vester, Nash Community College
2011
- Dave Kirby, Kirby Information Management Consulting
- Saundra Williams, N.C. Community College System
2010
- Dan Gerlach and the Golden LEAF Foundation, Golden LEAF Foundation
- Shannon Howle Tufts, UNC Chapel Hill
2009
- Ed Chase, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
2008
- Benny Hendrix, Rutherford County Schools
- Rhonda Moses, Northampton County Schools
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