(WGHP) — If you go to the right school, there are times when the people who stand at the front of the class can change your life.
For Ross Harris, who grew up in Greensboro, it came as she was looking at her final years in Durham.
“One of my professors at Duke … was a visiting professor. His name was Saul Friedman,” Harris said. “He was a reporter for the Knight Ridder newspapers, and there was a course I took called Working with the Media about how to write for the media, and so he was one of the professors along with David Broder from the Washington Post. I got to know these guys … For my program at Duke, Public Policy, we had a summer internship in Washington. A lot of people chose health policy. I chose communications policy. I really wanted to work at the White House. I just thought, what a great thing.”…