The Hart Leadership Program capped off its semester of Connect2Politics events with a discussion of the uses of data for organizing Monday evening. The student moderated discussion featured featuring Amy Cox and Briana Brough, co-founders of Flip NC, and Karthik Balasubramanian Pratt ‘07, an assistant professor at Howard University and founder of the 14 Cities initiative. Panelists […]

HLP Director Gunther Peck is featured in an article in the 9th Street Journal about student participation in Durham’s 2019 municipal elections. This year, Durham residents elected a mayor, members of the city council, and decided whether to support an Affordable Housing bond. Peck advocated for Duke to provide free Lyft rides for students to go […]

Students in HLP Associate Director Lalita Kaligotla’s PPS270 Lead the Way Durham course created a digital timeline about the history of Duke’s Silent Vigil. After Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, Duke students launched a protest and vigil to commemorate his legacy and demand change to University policies. The students—sophomores Jaliwa Albright, and Jeremy […]