LCC graduate selected for Governor Bob Scott Leadership Award

Lenoir Community College graduate Hannah Moody of Richlands has been selected the College’s 2020 Governor Robert W. Scott Leadership Award recipient.

 In 2004, the North Carolina Association of Community College Presidents created the Governor Robert Scott Leadership Award as a way to recognize student leadership on a statewide level while also honoring the former Governor. This is an award designed to highlight outstanding curriculum student leadership and service. 

She plans to attend East Carolina University in the fall to major in Speech and Hearing Science and later pursue a Doctorate in Audiology.

While at LCC, she served as vice president of the Student Government Association, and as an LCC Ambassador through the College Foundation. A member of Phi Theta Kappa, international honor society, she was the Arts and Sciences Division Laptop Scholarship Award recipient. She is an SAT Scholar based on ACT score and has logged more than 100 hours of volunteer service. 

Moody is president of the Original Free Will Baptist Youth Convention and is a Sunday School teacher at Whaley’s Chapel OFWB Church, where she is also a Praise and Worship Leader.

“My leadership style is the same across the varying positions, where I incorporate all members of the group, act as a role model for others, and I make myself available to serve those around me,” Moody said. “When I began taking up leadership roles, I did not realize how important they would become in shaping who I am today,” she said.

“I apply skills that I have learned from one position to the next, and it makes me a better leader, where I am continually learning new things about myself and others. I am incredibly thankful for each role I have served and what I have learned that I can apply to future leadership roles.”

Moody said she feels that her most outstanding contribution as a leader is in her role as an advocate for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. “I was born to two deaf adults, making me a CODA or a Child of a Deaf Adult, where I have had to be an interpreter for my parents and had to help them out with things that they did not understand very well,” she said.

“My role as an advocate for the deaf community is the position I have been in for the longest amount of time, which consists of incorporating the deaf community as a whole, being a role model, and being of service to people that cannot hear when they are treated as incompetent.

“As an advocate, I promote deaf culture and the importance of American Sign Language to the deaf community,” she said. “Without the culture and the language, the deaf community would not thrive. I love working with the deaf and hard-of-hearing, where they can share their hardships and how things need to be improved, motivating me to push for equality and deaf rights.”

Moody said that she is thankful for the opportunities she has had at the College, in the community and in her church. “As a leader and as a person, I put others before myself, where I know that everyone’s needs are being met. I hope that I can encourage others to put aside their fear of taking charge and let them know that their dedication to the position is rewarding and worthwhile.”