Nooze Hounds

CMS Board of Education at-large rep Jennifer De La Jara discusses the superintendent search, recent elections, the movement against public education and more. 

Hired this past Summer as President and CEO at Charlotte Museum of History, Terri White discusses what means to be the first Black woman to hold that position and her vision for making the museum a keystone not only of East Charlotte but the Queen City as a whole.

Priya Sircar, the city of Charlotte’s first arts and culture officer, discusses the process behind creating the new Arts and Culture Plan including everything that led up to that and some of the controversy that has come along with it. 

On this episode, Leondra Garrett and Juan Hall with Charlotte’s Alternatives to Violence program discuss their day-to-day work on the ground in the Beatties Ford Road corridor. 

Erin Santos-Primis is the founder and executive director of the Isabella Santos Foundation, which will celebrate it's 15 year anniversary in October. The nonprofit organization was founded in 2007 following Erin's daughter Isabella's neuroblastoma diagnosis.

On the latest Nooze Hounds, A Preferred Women’s Health Center co-owner and executive director Calla Hales discusses how things have changed outside of her clinic over the years, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and how to get involved locally. 

Charlotte photojournalist Grant Baldwin discusses how he found himself at the center of a story that made national headlines this week after a photo he took of two men kissing was removed from an exhibit at a Gaston County history museum.

Dana Draa with Metrolina Association for blind People joins Ryan and Rosebud Turner, an unsighted lifelong teacher, artist and auther, to discuss accessibility in Charlotte.

Newly elected Charlotte City Council Rep. Marjorie Molina discusses her goals for when she's sworn in to represent District 5, from development at Eastland to infrastructure in the rural far-eastern parts of the city.

Newly elected Charlotte City Council rep Dante Anderson discusses her goals for when she's sworn in to represent District 1, one of Charlotte's most diverse districts.