2023 Empower Award & Past Recipients

The Empower Award was introduced in 2008 to recognize individuals who were new members of the community and made an immediate impact upon engagement within MCNC’s statewide collection of outstanding technology leaders.

Empower Award Recipients

2023

• Annette Taylor, N.C. Department of Information Technology

2021

• Machelle Baker Sanders, N.C. Secretary of Commerce

2019

• Jeff Whitworth, UNC Greensboro

2016

• Maurice Ferrell, UNC Chapel Hill

2015

• Lamar Owen, Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute

2014

• Angie Bailey, NC Broadband

2013

• John Graham, UNC Chapel Hill

2012

• Jonathan Vester, Nash Community College

2011

• Dave Kirby, Kirby Information Management Consulting
• Saundra Williams, N.C. Community College System

2010

• Dan Gerlach and the Golden LEAF Foundation, Golden LEAF Foundation
• Shannon Howle Tufts, UNC Chapel Hill

2009

• Ed Chase, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

2008

• BennyHendrix, Rutherford County Schools
• Rhonda Moses, Northampton County Schools