January 2025 Theme: Practice of Story
Until the day he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. opposed any deviation from his strategy of nonviolence and anti-war. Nearly 60 years later, America seems to remain hopelessly imperfect, and the arc of the moral universe seems to be bending in the wrong direction for the most historically oppressed. Would Dr. King, always more militant than his supporters or critics gave him credit for, still preach the same gospel?
Dr. Henry C. McKoy, Jr. held two Senior Presidential appointments in the U.S. Department of Energy for the Biden-Harris Administration from 2022-2025, following a distinguished career in finance, investing, business, higher education, and public service. Immediately prior to his Presidential appointments, Dr. McKoy served in a number of academic appointments at North Carolina Central University, UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, and Harvard University. From 2010-2012 Dr. McKoy served as a member of the North Carolina Governor’s cabinet, appointed by Governor Beverly Perdue as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
Dr. McKoy has a BSBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Masters Degree from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of City and Regional Planning.
