A UNC alumna will become director of the American Indian Center at UNC on May 1.
Amy Locklear Hertel, of the Lumbee and Coharie tribes of North Carolina, is currently a project manager at the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is a doctoral candidate at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
The largest Native American population in the eastern United States rests in North Carolina.
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