Leoneda Inge
Host, "Due South"Leoneda Inge is the co-host of "Due South" — WUNC's new daily radio show. She was formerly WUNC’s 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’s most recent work of note includes “A Tale of Two North Carolina Rural Sheriffs,” produced in partnership with Independent Lens; a series of reports on “Race, Slavery, Memory & Monuments,” winner of a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists; and the series “When a Rural North Carolina Clinic Closes,” 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 WUNC team that won an Alfred I. duPont Award from Columbia University for the group series – “North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty.” In 2017, Leoneda was named “Journalist of Distinction” 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 – Japan.
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Leoneda Inge and a panel of reporters review the region's biggest stories of the week, from politics to education, on the NC News Roundup.
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Jeff Tiberii and Leoneda Inge talk to Adanna Omeni, owner of 1 Blossom 2 Bloom Floral Design and NC State horticulture professor Melinda Knuth about the Valentine's rush for the floral industry.
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Due South co-host Leoneda Inge has launched a new recurring segment on historically Black colleges and universities: HBCU 101.
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Professor LaGarrett King joins co-host Leoneda Inge to discuss approaches to teaching difficult Black history to K-12 students.
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Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen and film studies professor Michael A. Betts II talk with Leoneda Inge about their new podcast series “Echoes of a Coup" and the reverberations felt today from the 1898 Wilmington massacre and coup d’état.
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On our "Golden Hour," the author of Building a Better Boomer embraces the lighter side of aging. Then, a candid conversation about the ups and downs of being a contestant on "The Golden Bachelor."
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Due South introduces a new series on historically Black colleges and universities, HBCU 101. Leoneda Inge talks to Shaw University president Paulette Dillard, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and the family of a high school senior who is weighing several college acceptances.
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Ursula Mead of Durham-based InHerSight says when companies (and people) are honest about pay, workers can benefit – a lot.
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Duke professor Ashleigh Shelby Rosette measured outcomes from the reality TV show "Shark Tank" and found “relational” approaches led to fewer deal impasses.
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Reporter Joanne Drilling talks about six-figure salaries in the South and which industries have seen significant pay increases in recent years.
