How do small rural communities in North Carolina influence decisions about healthcare, economic development, and public resources? In this episode of Rural Narratives, host Layna Hong...
Across western North Carolina, residents are working alongside local government, churches and other organizations to identify where people are being left offline and find ways...
What does it take to participate fully in community life when so much of it happens online? In rural western North Carolina, digital access can shape...
In Columbus County in rural North Carolina, the COVID-19 pandemic changed how Lisa Richey thought about public health. Lisa came to Columbus County as a banker...
Vicki Wiggins worries about what happens when young people grow up surrounded by violence and become “unfortunately unfazed” by it. In Hertford County, Mayors Weyling White...
How do we build strong public health systems? In rural Hertford County, North Carolina, the answer begins with people. These stories emerged from community story circles, where...
What does health look like in a rural community? In Columbus County, North Carolina, it looks like a long drive to specialized medical care. It looks...
Agriculture contributes billions of dollars to North Carolina’s economy and helps put food on tables across the country. Yet many of the workers who plant,...
Across this series, we’ve explored the stories told about rural communities. This episode examines how rural health is framed — and what those narratives reveal...
Public health depends on science. But science alone doesn’t build trust. In rural eastern North Carolina, trust is shaped by lived experience — by whether systems...