Bridget Laird is chief executive officer of WINGS, an organization she first joined in 1998. WINGS is a national nonprofit that teaches social-emotional skills to elementary-aged students from North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, in an after-school setting. Bridget has an undergraduate degree in parks and recreation from North Carolina State University and a master's degree in education from Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is an adjunct professor at Trident Technical College, is married and the mom of a daughter and son.