Americans at the crossroads of history and the choices they make when they get there.

Christopher Moxley is a career Fortune 100, corporate professional turned Forbes-featured entrepreneur. He is co-founder of several businesses, including the award-winning Charlotte-based lifestyle and apparel brand, 704 Shop, which he scaled into a widely known 7-figure business and made a successful exit.

Now with UNC Charlotte, his Alma mater and former collaboration partner, as Director of Development for the Corporate Engagement and Strategic Partnerships team, his primary skillset includes business strategy, sales, operations, and expanding both business relationships and brand visibility.

Chris is passionate about his hometown of Charlotte, NC and its history, having founded and curated 704 Shop’s Fact Friday series - an inclusive history of Charlotte that inspires hometown pride - and demonstrates this passion through service to the community in the form of philanthropy, volunteerism, and non-profit board service.

Brandon Lunsford has been the Historian at Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation since 2025, and has focused on connecting communities with places and spaces around Charlotte. Before his arrival at the county, Brandon had been the University Archivist at the James B. Duke Memorial Library at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte since 2009.

He wrote Charlotte Then and Now for Anova Books and Thunder Bay Press as part of his thesis project in 2008 and completed revised editions in 2012 and 2015. He received his MLIS with a concentration in Archives from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2019, an MA in Public History with a concentration in Historic Preservation from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2009, and a BA in History from UNCC in 2001.

Michael A. Betts II is a Durham, North Carolina based experiential sound designer and social documentarian. An assistant professor of media production in the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication at High Point University, his work focuses on minoritized corporeality in majority spaces, asking viewers to grapple with their part within structures of power. A native of Greensboro, NC; he received his BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011 and his MFA in experimental documentary from Duke University in 2020.

Betts' 2023 work with PRX's first season of Monumental was awarded two Signal Awards, a Bronze in General History and a Silver in Documentary. This work would be the spring board for his 2024 collaboration with John Biewen for Scene on Radio's sixth season: Echoes of a Coup focused on the 1898 Massacre and Coup in Wilmington, North Carolina and its lasting community impacts amassing over 1 million listeners in its first year!

He had the privilege of working with Grammy award winning documentarian Bill Ferris and Ashley Melzer on Ferris' recut short film, Okay Mr. Ray! Michael was also honored to work with Pilar Timpane on the award winning film A Home For My Mother featuring the best friend of Morgan Freeman, Dr. Benjamin Nero. Recently, his work for Martine Granby's Same Water played at True/False and Black Star, among a host of others. His work would never be possible without his partner Carmen, their two children, Xaris (5) & Miguel (2), and their puppy Maya.

Helen Schwab is a longtime Charlotte journalist. She retired as arts + culture editor from The Charlotte Observer after more than three decades in the newsroom, where she wrote, edited, led community outreach efforts, diversified freelance staff, spearheaded new sections, reviewed restaurants, and secured and administered six-figure grant funding. She has written for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Remembrance Project (a collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative), on whose steering committee she serves; consulted for the PBS documentary “A Binding Truth,” based on two series written by her husband, Gary Schwab; and is at work on an 1860s Charlotte history project.

As a consultant for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, she co-conceived and wrote a multimillion-dollar federal grant for writing instruction, and continues to support both beginning and seasoned storytellers. She holds a BS in journalism from Northwestern.