Carol Bono is currently the Digital Storyteller and Multimedia Specialist in the College of Education at NC State University. There, she focuses on producing engaging multimedia content — including videos, photos, and motion graphics — that positions the college as one of the leading colleges of education in the nation and advances its mission to improve education across North Carolina and beyond.

Before joining the College of Education, Carol was the Communications Manager and Lead Storyteller at LatinxEd, an education nonprofit committed to investing in Latine leadership to advance educational equity and opportunity in North Carolina. An award-winning bilingual multimedia storyteller, she has nearly ten years of experience producing videos and creating motion graphics, four of them within nonprofit organizations in North Carolina.

At EdNC — a nonprofit education news organization — she worked as a Bilingual Multimedia Reporter and created the series Comunidad to amplify the stories of strength and perseverance of our Latine students, educators, and community. Comunidad won the 2020 North Carolina Press Association award in the Multimedia Project category.

Carol was part of the team that produced the inaugural animation for Morehead Planetarium’s “Hidden Stories” series, a story that revolves around Dorothy Vaughan and her work that helped put humans on the Moon. It won first place in the Standalone Multimedia category of the 2018 Michigan State University Design Contest for College Students.

She was born in Guatemala, where she graduated from Universidad Rafael Landívar with a major in Communication Sciences focused on Communication for Development. During her undergraduate studies, Carol was a student research assistant for the Director of the Humanistic Studies Institute. While working there, her interest in research developed into a professional goal: to create high-caliber multimedia narratives firmly based on research. She earned her M.A. in Mass Communication with a focus on Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.