By Thalia Halloran This post is part of a series called Profiles in Leadership, chronicling the extraordinary endeavors of Hart students during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Lily Levin (SOL ’20, Trinity ’23) leapt to action the minute the COVID-19 crisis affected Duke. When Levin, a first-year, heard that Duke was closing down campus and switching […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all areas of life, raising many pressing social issues to the fore. Students in one HLP course course have designed infographics tackling to engage the public about these concerns. The original goal of the assignment was for students to hone visual communication skills by creating a graphic that would persuade […]
A program launched by former Hart Fellow Laxmi Rajak, Trinity ’15, was recently cited in Borgen Magazine. The Karsh Mentorship Initiative brings teams of Duke students to Nepal each summer to teach “change-making” skills in secondary schools. A native of Nepal, Rajak started the program in 2014 as a way to create meaningful educational opportunities […]
By Thalia Halloran This post is part of a series called Profiles in Leadership, chronicling the extraordinary endeavors of our students during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Political Engagement Project fellows Erin Lee, Catherine Martinez, and Julianna Rennie (PEP ’20, PPS’21) didn’t let the COVID-19 pandemic stop their fascinating work on immigration and representation. Before […]
Duke Today featured the Hart Leadership Program’s “Poem a Day” project in a story on how Duke faculty members are using poetry to cope with the COVID-19 crisis. The piece included an interview with HLP Professor Faulkner Fox on what inspired the initiative. Read more here.
By Thalia Halloran This post is the first in a series called Profiles in Leadership, chronicling the extraordinary endeavors of Hart students during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Margaret Gaw (SOL ’20, Trinity ’22) has risen above and beyond since the COVID-19 crisis hit Duke. Gaw, an English major and Chemistry minor, worked with Catherine McMillan […]