Profile in Giving
Gratitude, family values prompt young alumna to give back
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| Joi Corrothers |
Joi Corrothers ’98 came to Carolina with an open mind and an open future and discovered that a life’s labor can also be a life’s love.
“I didn’t know what my life’s work would be when I came to UNC, but I knew I wanted it to be finance-related and in New York,” said Corrothers, now an assistant vice president at MetLife. “My days at UNC were about building a tool kit. Not just professionally, but also with respect to the kind of citizen and member of the community I wanted to be. I had the privilege of learning from professors like Dick Richardson and David Hoffman who were successful because they did what they loved. They and many others gave me the knowledge to find what I love and make a career out of it.”
Corrothers has supported UNC consistently since graduation — motivated, she notes, by gratitude for her scholarship and values instilled by her parents. A recipient of a Dr. Joseph E. Pogue Scholarship, she appreciates the nature of that scholastic support.
“I was able to attend Carolina because of the generosity of the Pogue family,” Corrothers says. “While I’m not in a position to fund scholarships at this point, I do want to give back to the university that prepared me for my career. Growing up, my parents instilled in me the values of giving and of giving back. My support of UNC is a way to do both.”
The alumna of the Kenan-Flagler Business School has chosen to support that school plus the Sonja Haynes Stone Center. “I was very active with the Stone Center Communiversity volunteer programs when I was an undergrad. Since I can no longer support Communiversity with my time, I have been contributing to the center financially.”
The faculty — especially Dr. Herb Davis, her academic advisor through the Pogue program — guided her academic and professional development at every level, even to the point of introducing her to an internship opportunity on Wall Street that pointed her to the world of investment banking. She credits the business school with crafting opportunities for students that provide the necessary steps to business careers.
“Kenan-Flagler has one of the top-rated undergraduate business programs in the country and anything I can do to help it retain — or improve — its position is an opportunity I’m pleased to be able to act upon,” Corrothers notes.
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