With over twenty-five years as a passionate educator, Professor Susan Autry has focused her entire professional life on bringing history to life for her students. She has taught at York Technical College, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and for fifteen years at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) where she currently teaches full-time. She chaired the History Department at CPCC, receiving several awards for her instruction, including her appointment as a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Autry was also featured on several episodes of the “Trail of History” docuseries as well as the PBS documentary “Paved with Gold”. Throughout her quarter century career, Autry has presented at numerous conferences, seminars and panels, including Charlotte History Education Day (2013-2015), Constitution Day Panel (2014), Civil Rights Today (2020), and Women’s Rights - Ginsberg (2020), among many others. She served on the Board of Directors at Historic Latta Place where she also volunteered as a costumed docent providing tours and historical lectures. She is a member of the Mecklenburg Historical Society, the North Carolina Association of Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians. Autry is an advocate for history, preservation, interpretation, and public visitation of historic sites. She spends her personal time traveling and visiting the venues of America’s past, seeing firsthand where history took place.