A western North Carolina college president looks back on a tumultuous semester

Date:

January 3, 2025

When Damian Fernández first moved from Florida to Swannanoa, North Carolina, last year, he thought he’d come to a “climate sanctuary.”

For a while, Warren Wilson College was the weather safe haven Fernández expected. The storms he initially saw as president of Warren Wilson College were nothing like the hurricanes he was used to navigating in St. Petersburg, Fla.

That was until September of this year, when Helene hit North Carolina.

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A western North Carolina college president looks back on a tumultuous semester

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