Mecca graduated, with honors, from Murphy High School, Murphy, NC, in 2003. She attends Bennett College in Greensboro, NC. Mecca is interested in a career in the legal profession and wants to work to assure that abused and neglected children are not further injured by our judicial system.

Read what a classmate wrote about Mecca at Your True Hero, a site that honors ordinary people who do extraordinary things.

Matthew Wright is a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is working toward a major in Religious Studies and a minor in Creative Writing.

In his spare time, Matthew is involved with the Episcopal Campus Ministry.