LeRae Sikes Umfleet works with the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources to develop outreach and specialty programming projects. From 2003 to 2007, Ms. Umfleet was a research historian in the North Carolina Office of Archives and History. In 2007 she received the American Association for State and Local History's Award of Merit and WOW Award for her work on the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Report.
