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Nora Dial-Stanley is member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and an active member of the Native American and Indigenous community of UNCG and North Carolina. She was instrumental in the re-formation of the Native American Student Association at UNCG in the mid 2000s and worked with Native American students through the Guilford Native American Association even before coming to work at UNCG. Dial-Stanley worked at UNCG as a Project Manger at UNCG from 2008-2018 and, at the time of this interview (Summer 2022), worked at as a Program Manager at Old Dominion Freight Line. In this interview, Dial-Stanley discusses her family and background, growing up in Guilford County, visiting Robeson County, her high school (whose mascot she successfully got changed from "Indians" years later) and her higher education and degrees from Forsyth Tech and High Point University. Dial-Stanley discusses her working career. She has worked at Jefferson-Pilot and Lincoln Financial, UNCG, and at the time of this interview, at Old Dominion Freight Line. All of her work has been in the IT and Program Management fields. Dial-Stanley discusses the Native American and Indigenous community and issues at UNCG including: her involvement with the Guilford Native American Association, involvement with the UNCG Native American Student Association (NASA) and its programming and outreach, challenges faced at UNCG, lack of representation on campus, recruitment of Native American students, NASA and GNAA events, UNCG's land acknowledgement, and what UNCG can do in the future to support Native American and Indigenous students. Dial-Stanley also discusses issues facing the Native American and Indigenous community in the US today. Dial-Stanley discusses her project, "Leaving Home, Building Community: Triad Native American History, Presence, and Continuance" which involved interviews with 10 Native American families who discussed what it was like to move from their traditional homes into other areas in the Triad. Many issues related to the Native American experience in a predominantly white world and a sense of home and its importance are discussed. Dial-Stanley concludes the interview by talking about what she would like non-Indigenous Americans to realize about Indigenous people and cultures.