Jennifer Hoffert is making a dream come true. She recently completed an associate’s degree in radiography at Wake Tech, and she’s now focused on the college’s brand new Mammography Technology program. Jennifer decided to enroll at Wake Tech in 2013, once her children were out of the house: “It was my turn to figure out ‘what I want to be when I grow up’!” After helping to care for...

Leslie Whitehurst Class of 2019 At the age of 37, Leslie Whitehurst was diagnosed with Stage lll breast cancer. “It was a shock,” Leslie says. “I was a mother of two and had just completed the New York City Marathon!” But instead of feeling normal post-marathon pains, she felt something unusual. Leslie went to her doctor for a mammogram, and ended up needing a biopsy, followed by 35...