Donna Bell - On her family, career, and Northside

Chronological overview of Donna Bell’s life history; being raised in New Bern, NC; growing up in a single parent home; her undergraduate experience and involvement at UNC; career choices through studying English to working in Social Therapy; her move to Northside in 2001, her first house, her husband, her daughter and stepson, the Northside community, neighbors; gentrification and new development in Northside; student housing vs. family housing; Bell’s position on the town council, campaigning, committees, difficulties; Bell’s work as a social worker and therapist, her various jobs, her current private practice in Carrboro, NC; social work “fees”; reflection on her life decisions and the difficulties of making them; significance of the worth of working hard and making good life choices.