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ConvergeNC Committee Members: <br /> Students: <br /> o Libby Rodenbough (Festival Co-Director)—UNC senior in Folklore <br /> o Gabe Chess (Festival Co-Director)—UNC junior in Religious Studies <br /> o Connor Kane (Festival Treasurer)—UNC junior in Economics and Latin <br /> American Studies <br /> Other student planning committee members include Hillary Stroud, Clyde Atkins, <br /> Clay Sutton, and Jake Bernstein. <br /> Community and UNC faculty members: <br /> o *Patrick Horn—(Project Director)—Associate Director of CSAS, scholar of <br /> American literature <br /> o Jocelyn Neal—Director of CSAS, scholar of country music <br /> o Bill Ferris— Senior Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the <br /> American South (CSAS), renowned scholar of Southern music and culture. Bill <br /> was one of our first advisors and advocates. <br /> o Mark Katz—Chair of UNC Music Dept, studies DJ culture and technology in <br /> music <br /> o Art Menius—Director of the Carrboro Arts Center, former Director of the <br /> International Bluegrass Association <br /> o Duncan Murrell—NC writer/journalist on Southern culture, writer-in-residence <br /> at Duke Center for Documentary Studies. His piece in the Oxford American <br /> initiated the "Against Authenticity" series, which helped inspire the theme of our <br /> panel discussion <br /> o David Garcia—UNC Associate Professor of Music, scholar of Latino music <br /> o Emil Kang—Executive Director for the Arts at UNC,professor of arts <br /> entrepreneurship and performance theory <br /> o Maxwell George—Asst. Editor and writer at The Oxford American magazine <br /> o Rob Bruce—Director of the Friday Center for Continuing Education <br /> o Michael Taylor—North Carolina folklorist, musician <br /> o Aaron Smithers—Technical Assistant at the Southern Folklife Collection, <br /> experimental musician, organizer of the International Accordion Festival <br /> o David Garcia—UNC Music Professor, ethnomusicologist <br /> *A note about our project director: UNC requires that, for purposes of grants, a UNC <br /> staff member(rather than a student)must serve as project director. Pat Horn is our closest <br /> contact at CSAS, so he has agreed to take on that role. However, this application was <br /> completed by Libby Rodenbough and Gabe Chess,the co-directors of the festival (both <br /> students). Libby and Gabe will be largely responsible for the execution of this project, <br /> with Pat supervising. <br />