“One thing we love about the South is that it’s always evolving. We cherish our traditions, but we’re also the first to cheer the rabble-rousers, the underdogs, the people who are shaping the South to be something new, something different, something we’ve never seen before” —Southern Living
Three of the 56 Southern Living Innovators Changing the South in 2016 are from the University of Mississippi:
Patrick Woodyard
Patrick Woodyard (BA international studies and Spanish ’10), co-founder and CEO of Nisolo
Sara Camp Milam
Sarah Camp Milam, Southern Foodways Alliance managing editor
Joe York
Joe York (MA Southern Studies), a documentary filmmaker for the Southern Documentary Project, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture