Tag: Wake Forest University

Katina Parker (’96) founded Feed Durham NC to bring healthy food to communities stressed by the pandemic.

Johanna Beach (’15) turns her hobby of sprucing up homes on a budget into a project to brighten lives.

Alumnus doggedly pursues a career in comedy, and he’s making it happen.

The late Martha Mason (’60), who survived six decades in an iron lung, and an alumna filmmaker inspire a Deacon mother and her retirement community.

Quiz Bowl brings alumni together online for not-so-trivial pursuit of fun and socializing.

An alumna who specializes in painting portraits raises $13,000 for the COVID-19 response by Wake Forest Baptist Health.

Wake Forest alumna helps launch a newsroom named for the 19th Amendment, which gave U.S. women voting rights in 1920.

Recent graduate Connor deMayo captures art, science and celestial history with a photo and video of Comet Neowise.

Chef and culinary stylist Ashton Keefe (’09) pivots in the pandemic.

Four alumni honored for literary achievement.

A scholarship winner himself, Bill Wells (’74) is retiring as Wake Forest's longtime director of financial aid, having put philanthropic dollars to work for worthy students.

Chris Mowry (’82), lead singer for The Shakes band in his campus days, focuses as a biologist on the mysteries of coyotes.

A chain reaction of bravery, chance connections and support among Wake Forest colleagues leads to a kidney transplant and transformed lives.

Zach Klein (’04) follows his passions, from co-founding Vimeo and DIY.org to sharing woodsy architecture in Cabin Porn books to a dream job as CEO of Dwell magazine.

An alumna shares her fresh perspectives after touring museums in her adopted home city abroad with new Deacon friends.

How two wars and a brutal attack led the son of Baptist missionaries to help others with fear and pain.

Hillary Heard Baack (’02) thrives in film and on stage with an outsider’s acute observing of human nature and stories.

Lindsay McClure Miller (’07) and her photographer husband open new digital worlds for students to share culture internationally