Carolina’s Next Gates Cambridge Scholar
Published on July 10, 2018At Cambridge, one Carolina alum will explore creative approaches to education.
At Cambridge, one Carolina alum will explore creative approaches to education.
At Carolina, William McInerney ’11, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Honors Carolina, researched arts and peace education, and discovered the power of poetry in the classroom. After graduating with a degree in peace, war and defense, he worked as a poet and educator, performing and teaching worldwide; as a journalist and producer with WUNC-FM, focusing on peace and conflict stories; and as executive director of a spoken word poetry and peace education nonprofit in Chapel Hill called Sacrificial Poets. He returned to Carolina as an employee to develop and help facilitate the UNC Men’s Project, a men’s violence prevention program for undergraduate and graduate students.
In recognition of his work, he was awarded a Rotary Peace Fellowship to study conflict resolution from the University of Bradford in England, earning a master’s degree in 2018. Now, he’ll pursue a Ph.D. in education at Queens’ College of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
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This is story number 136 in the Carolina Stories 225th Anniversary Edition magazine.
