SANFORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY at Duke University

Ambassador James A. Joseph

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Ambassador James A. Joseph

Ambassador James Joseph has worked in business, government, philanthropy, and acadamia. He now begins a new role in the Hart Leadership Program as Leader in Residence.
Story by Chris Schwinden

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Eddie Zhang & Josh Greenberg

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Eddie Zhang & Josh Greenberg

“When you’re on the ground, there are at least a billion and a half adaptive challenges. It’s just remarkable how many things go wrong every single day.”
Story by Julia Love

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Jason Wong

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Jason Wong

"I wanted to experience water deprivation for myself...we need to understand not just in the intellectual sense but also the visceral sense what it means to live without water."
Story by Julia Love

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WHO House

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WHO House

When Professor Rachel Seidman’s students discussed the state of women on campus, they hit on some big problems: the disproportionately low number of women in Duke Student Government, the culture of effortless perfection, and male students’ control of the campus social scene, to name a few...

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Seyward Darby

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Seyward Darby

Journalism in Washington, D.C., is not for the faint of heart—the pressure to report even the minutest details first is cutthroat, yet writers are also charged with the responsibility of informing the national discourse.
Story by Julia Love

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Tony Brown

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Tony Brown

"It's great to feel you've made a difference in the development of superstars, but they're going to be superstars anyway. The real satisfaction comes from somebody who comes into the course on the margin. You can see them grow up and blossom."
Story by Julia Love

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Naima von Ritter Figueres

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Naima von Ritter Figueres

“I learned so much, I did so much, I went through so much. It challenged the way I think about what I do, what I prioritize, what I grumble about at Duke...”
Story by Julia Love

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Damon, Sonya and Mark

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Damon, Sonya and Mark

"So what are you doing after school?" It's a question I'm asked often these days. After all, I’m a senior graduating in t-minus six months. But without fail, every time I hear someone forming the words, I can feel my palms start to sweat...
Story by Naureen Khan

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Karen Chen

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Karen Chen

“What I love most about live music performance is the energy, the interaction between the audience and the performers – and so that was an instant where it was like ‘Yeah! This is amazing!’”...

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Crayons 2 Calculators

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Crayons 2 Calculators

Bouquets of pencils, stacks of construction paper, bundles of notebooks and folders, all doled out free of charge. This was the sight that greeted Brandy Collins, a special- education teacher at Holt Elementary School, when she walked into Crayon2Calculators last week…

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Brian Wright

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Brian Wright

Most of the patrol team (IPT) was milling around the courtyard. On one side, the most paramilitary looking officer was cleaning and assembling his gun. By the station entrance was a cardboard box filled with grey plastic bottles. Ling, the head ISO staff member, asked me to take a picture of it…

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Lindsay Bayham

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Lindsay Bayham

A crumpled sheet of notebook paper hits me in the back with a soft thud. I pause, my hand suspended mid-sentence on the chalkboard. Behind me, the usual chorus of shouts and yells quiets for a few seconds…

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Evolve

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Evolve

“I’ve always been interested in entrepreneurship,” says senior Lina Feng. “Because of my parents, I’ve had an entrepreneurial mindset ever since I was very young. It’s what attracted me to the ELI program in the first place…”

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Karmel Wong

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Karmel Wong

From the beginning of my collaboration with my supervisor from International Child Art Foundation, I knew that community based research (CBR) wasn’t going to be easy…

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