More than 100 individuals attended the voters’ education forum held in the Martin Luther King Jr. Conference Center. Moderated by Dr. Elizabeth Fournier, chair for the Department of History, Government and Public Policy, the voters’ education forum allowed SAU students, faculty, staff and members of the community to hear first-hand from candidates on various issues from education to the challenges facing historically black colleges and universities to racial profiling. Other concerns raised by a group of panelists, which consisted of SAU students and a dean, included how to improve transportation in Raleigh and Wake County for low-income families to goals to assist private institutions. The panelists included Dr. Zaphon R. Wilson, dean of the School of Social Sciences and Behavioral Sciences, Chris Acevedo, a theatre major from Brooklyn, New York, Henry Capers, a junior political science major from Raeford, NC and Jarius Page, a business administration from Raleigh, N.C.

Below is the list of candidates who participated in the forum as well as their candidacy:

Yvonne Holley – State Lower House District 38

John Bryant and Freeman – Wake County Superior Court 10B District Attorney

Sam Bridges – Wake County Clerk of Superior Court

Matt Calabria and John Burns – Wake County Commissioner

Jenna Wadsworth – Wake County Soil & Water Conservation District Supervisor

John Bryant and Lorrin Freeman – Wake County Superior Court District Attorney

Lori Christian, Brad Donovan and Marty Martin – N.C. Court of Appeals Judge

Louis Meyer – N.C. District Court Judge

Sig Hutchinson – Wake County Commissioner

Honorable Craig Croom – District Court Judge

Ronnie Ansley – District Court Judge

Rosa Gill – N.C. General Assembly

Willie Rowe – Wake County Sheriff