# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQKATfsDdmg
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-23T15:12:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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Barbara Jessie-Black, who helped lead the Carrboro nonprofit CommunityWorx for more than two decades, died this week at the age of 62.

A post made on Jessie-Black’s personal Facebook profile said she died on Sunday morning and was “surrounded by family, friends and Sam Cooke.” The nonprofit confirmed the news with its own post in her honor on Tuesday, thanking its president and CEO for her leadership and saying its team is grieving the “profound loss.”

“For more than 20 years, [Jessie-Black] dedicated her life to the mission of CommunityWorx, uplifting our neighbors, empowering our staff, and strengthening the community she so deeply loved,” reads its statement. “Her leadership shaped the heart of this organization. Barbara championed fair wages, access to opportunity, and dignity for all. She was a tireless advocate for equity, compassion, and connection, values that will continue to guide our work every day.”

Jessie-Black came to the Chapel Hill and Carrboro community after being born and raised in Berlin, Germany as the daughter of a military family. She earned her undergraduate business degree at Augusta University in Georgia before graduating with a masters from Meredith College in Raleigh, and spent much of her professional life working in the nonprofit and social justice realm. She began working with the PTA Thrift Shop in Carrboro as its executive director in 2004 to help the historic nonprofit diversify its business while adapting to major upheaval.

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