{"id":2983,"date":"2026-03-16T10:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/march-2026\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:19:22","slug":"carolina-alumnus-gives-back-to-eastern-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/carolina-alumnus-gives-back-to-eastern-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Alumnus Gives Back to Eastern NC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Roy Dawson \u201911, \u201914 (JD) dropped out of high school to support his family, he never imagined he\u2019d graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill twice \u2014 and serve his community as an attorney in Kinston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press play on the video below to learn more about Dawson\u2019s story and how Carolina supported him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Roy Dawson: First. And For All.\" width=\"798\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bchuipsElSw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Video by John Roberts, University Communications and Marketing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Published Nov. 5, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Dawson &#8217;11, &#8217;14 dropped out of high school to support his family. Today he practices law in Kinston and gives back to the Eastern North Carolina community that shaped him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}