Elizabeth Hudson

North Carolina Signature Magazine

"Worth Writing About:

What I've Learned from the Women

of North Carolina."

August 27, 2008

A lifelong native of North Carolina, Elizabeth Hudson graduated with a degree in English and a minor in Environmental Studies from the UNC-Greensboro.  She began her publishing career at Our State magazine in 1997, where she has held titles ranging from circulation and editorial assistant to assistant editor, associate editor, managing editor, and senior editor.  Hudson developed and created Our State’s successful Down Home Series, five single-title issues that covered topics like Small Towns, Diners, Inns, Day Trips, and Weekends, and she is currently the editor of Our State’s sister publication, North Carolina Signature magazine, which debuted with a 75,000-copy distribution in Spring 2007.  Some pretty extraordinary women have been profiled including nine amazing entrepreneurs, female celebrity chefs, fabulous writers, artists, interior designers, and even a winemaker!  Elizabeth will share what she has learned from these amazing women!

Nancy Quaintance - Owner of Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants &

Hotels including O’Henry Hotel, Green Valley Grill, Proximity Hotel,

Print Works Bistro, Lucky 32 Restaurant

Dr. Laura Roselle - Professor of Political Science at Elon University  - “Women and a New Civic Culture”

Mary Tribble - Owner of Tribble Creative Group – designers of NC Conference for Women, NC Women’s Hall of Fame, Girls Rock the House