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Cohort 3

Jurisdiction: North Wilkesboro

University: Davidson College

Hometown: Charlotte, NC

Mary Elizabeth Campbell served her fellowship in the Town of North Wilkesboro. She was responsible for the Smoot Park Revitalization project and secured over $300,000 in grant funding to support revitalization efforts. The new park seeks to better serve low-income and minority residents. Campbell also created the Town’s first parks and recreation master plan. Her accomplishments included advancing affordable housing policies within the town and collaborating with state government stakeholders to secure $2 million in funding to address contaminated brownfields.

Mary Elizabeth graduated from Davidson College. At Davidson, she led student leadership programs with Davidson Outdoors and was an assistant instructor for her quantitative research methods classes. She worked with federal, state, and local level government by interning on Capitol Hill, with North Carolina’s 2020 Coordinated Campaign, and at Charlotte International House.

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