Empowering Leaders for Tomorrow
Tristan Slates exemplifies how determination and a willingness to embrace change can create transformative opportunities. A December 2024 graduate of the UNC School of Education's Human and Organizational Leadership Development (HOLD) program, Slates has charted a unique path, leveraging his experiences in hospitality to build a career focused on organizational leadership. Slates' journey to Carolina…
Launched in the fall of 2021, the UNC School of Education’s Human and Organizational Leadership Development (HOLD) program will graduate its first students in May 2023. During the spring 2023 semester, many HOLD students are completing capstone projects to complete the major and, more importantly, put their learning around leadership and organizational change into practice.…
Bryan Sorto Hernández is committed to educational equity and making a lasting impact on the lives of people in minoritized communities. Sorto Hernández, a senior in the UNC School of Education’s Human and Organizational Leadership Development (HOLD) program, and a double minor in public policy & Spanish for the legal professions, spent this summer as…
Ahead of the 2024 commencement in May, students of the Human and Organizational Leadership Development (HOLD) program concluded their capstone projects and presented insights from their experiences at a range of different professional organizations during an April 24 symposium in Peabody Hall. Throughout the spring semester, HOLD students applied their leadership knowledge and skills to…
Growing up in eastern North Carolina, D.J. Murphy was always interested in public safety roles and community service. Spending time with his grandparents watching emergency response television shows, he was inspired by how the characters positively impacted the lives of their on-screen patients. Murphy wanted to make a similar impact in people’s lives. Combined…
With the beginning of the 2022-23 academic year, many UNC School of Education students are returning to campus with summer experiences that will serve them inside the classroom and in their careers after they graduate. This summer, undergraduates in the School’s Human and Organizational Leadership Development (HOLD) program pursued a variety of experiences — interning…
