Civility Localized In Action

Civility Localized In The News

2025

• What Charlotte startup has planned for acquisition of Raleigh consulting firm (Charlotte Business Journal)

• Charlotte consulting firm expands into Raleigh with acquisition (QCity Metro)

• Ep. 41 The Reality of Business Seasons & Shifts - The Analytical Rewired Podcast®

• Why Quiet Activists Must Unmute (Christine Edwards Pitkin - TEDx Women Sugar Creek)

• Christine Edwards Pitkin, MPA is an Inc. Magazine 2025 Female Founders 500 Honoree (Inc. Magazine)

• Local Charlotte Entrepreneurs Make Inc. Magazine's Female Founders 500 List - Christine Edwards Pitkin, MPA Is Among Them (Charlotte Business Journal)

• Christine Edwards Pitkin, MPA Interviewed on SchermCo’s Square Pizza Podcast: March, 2025

• LISC Charlotte to open financial literacy center

• Christine is speaking at the Charlotte Ideas Festival on April 5th

• Christine is a speaker for the TEDx Sugar Creek Women, a TED Independently Organized Event

• Christine Edwards Named Women In Business Honoree 2025 (Charlotte Business Journal)

2024

• Kamala Harris is the likely Democratic nominee —what does this mean for Black voters? (WFAE/NPR)

• Charlotte’s Black female voters are ‘excited’ about Kamala Harris. They’re also concerned(Charlotte Observer)

• Civility Localized Founder Speaks Out at City Council Meeting (City of Charlotte YouTube)

• The Charlotte Observer hosts a candid conversation to demystify DEI and its future in NC (Charlotte Observer)

• Pride Magazine Guest Column: Why I’m Disappointed but not Surprised by the Supreme Court Decision to End Affirmative Action (Pride Magazine)

• Civility Localized Founder, Christine Edwards, Recognized in QCity Metro's Great 28, The Great 28 Black Charlotteans Who are Shaping Our City (QCity Metro)

2023

• Rocky Mount City Engagement Sessions - (Rocky Mount Telegram)

• New Report Offers Community Insight Into Corporate Landlord Issue - Queen City Nerve

• Study to look at adding public transit options to GSP Airport - (WSPA News)

• When Federal Reparations Have Yet to Be Realized, Local Institutions Step Up - Next City

• Reparations Commission Released Initial Recommendations (Asheville Mountain Xpress)

• Historic Latta Place discussed at Mecklenburg County commissioner meeting (WCNC-TV)

• Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools shaping future Goals and Guardrails (WCNC-TV)

• Asheville Reparations Project Recognized by Fast Company (Fast Company)

• Charlotte business owner says her company's operations are safe after Silicon Valley Bank collapse (WCNC-TV)

• Listening session held for Latta Place (WCNC-TV)

• Christine Edwards talks CRVA's longstanding MWSBE program (WCNC-TV)

• Nooze Hounds Interviews Christine Edwards of Civility Localized (Queen City Nerve)

• Hiring a new school superintendent is more expensive than you’d think (Axios Charlotte)

• Reparations commission requests audit (Asheville Mountain Xpress)

• Community Reparations Commission May Tweak Project Funding Process (ABC 13 News, WLOS Asheville)

• Will Asheville Reparations Commission See Timeline Change Again (Asheville Citizen-Times)

• Community Makes Its Voice Heard In Next Schools Leader (Charlotte Post)

• Heres What Survey Results Say People Want In New CMS Superintendent (QCity Metro)

2022

• Superintendent Search Community Survey Results Presented to CMS Board (WCCB)

• CMS leadership will take shape at Tuesday’s school board meeting (WFAE)

• CMS superintendent wish list: What do Charlotte nonprofits want in next education leader? (Charlotte Observer)

• Asheville Buncombe Reparations Committee Makes 2nd Recommendation (Asheville Citizen-Times)

• TEQuity backs out of Asheville reparations project management, Charlotte firm takes over (Asheville Citizen-Times)

• Buncombe tests and tweaks Code Purple plan (Asheville Mountain Xpress)

• Meet the 25 finalists in the 2022 Charlotte Inno Fire Awards program (Charlotte Business Journal)

• ‘Want to have a say’: As CMS superintendent vacancy looms, community shares expectations of new hire (WSOC-TV via Yahoo)

• Nooze Hounds: Charlotte Arts and Culture Officer Priya Sircar (Queen City Nerve)

• Listening sessions kick off for search for next CMS superintendent (WCNC)

• CMS Seeks Wider Engagement with Public Input on Superintendent Search (The Charlotte Post)

• CMS moves forward with superintendent search. Here’s how to offer your input (The Charlotte Observer)

• SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH INPUT SOUGHT (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools)

• CMS Seeks Community Input Before Hiring Process For Next Superintendent (WCCB)

• CMS parent urges families, community members to provide input on search for next superintendent (WBTV)

• CMS Board seeks public’s input on new superintendent (WBTV)

• The interim superintendent for CMS steps down in June 2023. School leaders want input on the next permanent one (WCNC)

• Charlotte Hires Globally Recognized Lord Cultural Resources and Two Local Firms, Amplify Charlotte & Fourth Economy to Help Develop Long Term Arts & Culture Plan. (City of Charlotte)

• Residents Decide County Projects in Participatory Budgeting Pilot (Queen City Nerve)

• Re-branded Charlotte civics consultant Civility Localized goes national (Charlotte Post)

• Volunteers Create Projects for Mecklenburg County Participatory Budget Program (Spectrum News)

• Charlotte Mayor’s Racial Equity Initiative to Address a host of issues (Radio One)

• Mecklenburg County’s Participatory Budget Program Gives Public Real Power (Radio One)

2021

• Learn How to Adapt with Christine Edwards (Let’s Link it Up Blog)

• New program helps Mecklenburg County residents decide on budget spending (Spectrum News)

• Vision Zero Faces Challenges in Eliminating Traffic Fatalities in Charlotte (Queen City Nerve)

• Greater Women's Business Council 2021 Power Of Partnering Marketplace - Virtual Edition (Q4)

• Amplify Consulting and VettDeck Land Major Contract with Mecklenburg County to Implement a Pilot Participatory Budgeting Program

• Voices for change: Black business owners in Charlotte weigh in on economic hurdles (subscription only)

• Amplify Consulting and CLT Public Relations to Host Virtual Voter Engagement Event on September 14: #CLTPrimary Twitter Chat will Address the Absence of 2021 General Elections in Charlotte

• Amplify Consulting Wins $100,000 Contract To Provide Community Engagement Consulting Services for The City of Charlotte’s Vision Zero Plan

• Charlotte-Based Amplify Consulting Awarded $25,000 Equity Capacity Building Grant From The National Resources Defense Council

• Crowns of Enterprise Awards recognizes minority, women, small business enterprises

• 2020 Crowns of Enterprise Winners

2020

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• Campbell outlines process to ‘reimagine’ policing (Mountain Xpress)

• Asheville encourages participation as budget process heats up

• Charlotte Community Leader Speaks Out About Community Policing

2019

• Queen City Nerve

• Renovation of Polk Park at the heart of Charlotte’s Uptown!

• Renovation of Polk Park to Create Premier Public Space in Uptown

2018

• 20 community leaders from cities across the nation selected to participate in Emerging City Champions fellowship program