Update: 4/15/26—We've had a tremendous response to our RFP! We're closing the application period while we review our current batch of submissions. WakeUP is excited...Continue reading
Category: Organization News
Meet Dean Rains, New WakeUP Board Member
Dean Rains is a Principal and Project Manager at LS3P with three decades of experience shaping the spaces where we live, work, and play. Since...Continue reading
Martha Eberle Joins WakeUP Board
Martha Eberle is a Senior Landscape Architect with Biohabitats’ Southeast Atlantic Bioregion Office in Raleigh, NC. She has more than 20 years of experience in...Continue reading
Help Us Welcome Dwight Otwell as a Board Member
Dwight Otwell earned a BS in Forest Management and an MS in Natural Resource Management from NCSU and currently works as a Goespatial Program Leader...Continue reading
Meet New Board Member Eric Lamb
Eric Lamb is a plangineer with STV, Inc. with more than 30 years of experience in the management and development of transportation projects and programs....Continue reading
WakeUP Wake County in the News!
News and Observer Opinion Editor Ned Barnett interviewed WakeUP Wake County Executive Director Bert Fox, WakeUP Wake County Board Chair Tom Barrie, and RaleighForward Executive...Continue reading
David Meeker Joins WUWC
David is founder and Managing Partner of Carpenter Development and partnered with Trophy Brewing in 2008. He is on the Board of the Downtown Raleigh...Continue reading
New Board Member Eric Braun
Eric is an attorney and the founder/Executive Director of RaleighForward. Prior to retiring in 2010, his law practice focused on land use regulation, zoning, litigation,...Continue reading