Dollar, Ernest A.: - Ernest A. Dollar Jr., a native of Durham, North Carolina, graduated from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro with B.A. in History, a B.F.A. in Design in 1993, and M.A. in Public History from North Carolina State in 2006. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve/North Carolina National Guard from 1993-1999.

Ernest has worked in several historic parks in both North and South Carolina, including as executive director of the Orange County Historical Museum, Preservation Chapel Hill. He currently serves as the director of the City of Raleigh Museum and Dr. M. T. Pope House Museum. He lives in Durham with his wife, Suzie, and their sons Elijah and Kilby.