Through her RISE internship, True DePaoli ’27 explores how inaccessible, unaffordable childcare is shaping family decisions — and why policy solutions must address both issues together.

📖 Read her op-ed in the South Carolina Daily Gazette: scdailygazette.com/2025/10/27/y...

How do you bring the American Dream closer to home?

In her 2025 StraightTalk op-ed contest submission, runner-up Raya Almahameed ’28 writes about what it means to rebuild hope and opportunity at the local level — and why Greenville’s story matters.

Read: thepaladin.news/17416/uncate... 📖

Tamara King (Midlands, Spring 2024) was named executive director of the Richland Library. Read more: www.thestate.com/news/local/a.... #RileyFellow

William Kenley (Upstate, Fall 2022), CEO of AnMed, was named among the nation’s Community Hospital CEOs to Know by Becker's Healthcare. Read more: www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-man... #RileyFellow

Tony Bartelme (Lowcountry, Fall 2018), senior projects reporter for The Post and Courier, received the Michael A. Dornheim Award from the National Press Club. Read more: www.postandcourier.com/news/f35-cra... #RileyFellow

Congrats, Amiya! 👏 As a RISE intern with Sustaining Way, she researched gentrification in Greenville's Nicholtown neighborhood this summer. Last week, her commentary, which included insights from her internship, was published in The Post and Courier. Read here: www.postandcourier.com/opinion/comm...

Adam Artigliere (Upstate, Spring 2024), partner at Burr & Forman, was named to the 2024 South Carolina Supreme Court Pro Bono Honor Roll. Read more: www.burr.com/newsroom/new... #RileyFellow

Kelly Gregory, our director for public education projects and partnerships, was on the "Simple Civics: EdTalks" podcast to share insights from Estonia. ✈️

She discussed insights from Estonia’s “whole child” approach to education.

🎙 Listen: www.simplecivicsgreenvillecounty.org/episodes/edt...

A TIME Magazine article highlights the nationwide shortage of afterschool programs. It features insights from White-Riley-Peterson Fellow Ben Trentelman and longtime Riley partner Jodi Grant.

We’re proud to see WRP fellows and partners driving this national conversation.👉 time.com/7318911/afte...

Riley staff attended SC Women in Lead's "Leading Women Dinner." Honorees, trailblazing women reshaping civic leadership, included:

🏅USC SC WBB Coach Dawn Staley
🏅Former SC Women in Lead CEO Barbara Rackes
🏅Michelle Brandt, Charleston County Parks Commission

Read: scwomenlead.net/event/leadin...

What can #SouthCarolina learn from one of the world’s top-performing education systems?

That was the question guiding a field study to Estonia, led by @RileyInstitute, Public Education Partners and @sccompetes.

Read Wendy Thacker's reflection here: www.furman.edu/riley/eviden...

What do Nobel Prize winners in Economics and Raj Chetty have in common? Most start with the John Bates Clark Medal — a.k.a “Baby Nobel.”

Tomorrow, Chetty will bring his research to #StraightTalk.

📍McAlister |⏰ 6:30 p.m.
🎟️www.furman.edu/riley/speaker-award-events/speaker-events/straighttalk-2025

Glenis Redmond (Upstate, Fall 2013), Greenville's first poet laureate, was awarded the Order of the Palmetto. Read more: greenvillejournal.com/community/gl...

The American relationship with China is reshaping the global order 🌎 — and its ripple effects are felt right here in South Carolina.

On Thursday, September 17, Ambassador Kritenbrink and Dr. Kaup will lay out what global tensions mean at home.

To register: www.furman.edu/riley/speake...

Larry Miller (Upstate, Fall 2022) was named president of Greenville Technical College. Read more: greenvillejournal.com/education/gr...