The Whirl: Wakeup Wake County Annual Reception

On Dec. 4, the WakeUP Wake County, RaleighForward, CITYBUILDER Annual Reception was held at Junction West. The theme was “Repairing Our Broken Housing System,” and featured honorary chair Senator Jay Chaudhuri and keynote speaker Dr. Jenny Schuetz, who is Vice President of Infrastructure, Housing at Arnold Ventures and author of Fixer Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems.

Scott Ferris, Elizabeth Forsythe, Bert Fox, Jeff Babajtis
Sig Hutchinson, Jacquie Ayala, Andrew Blackburn
Jay Chaudhuri, Harlan Salsbery
Anne Franklin, Brandon Culbreth, Lisa Grafstein
Thomas Barrie, Jenny Schuetz

This article originally appeared in the March 2026 issue of WALTER magazine.

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