Internship with Melissa Price Kromm of NC for Clean Elections

Sydney collaborated with Thea Dowrich in working with Melissa Price Kromm of NC for Clean Elections on research into how formerly incarcerated might secure voting rights more consistently upon finishing parole in NC. Sydney also created an anti-racism book club over the summer in the immediate wake of George Floyd’s murder. That cohort of Duke students quickly became one of the largest student organizations on campus in the fall. In the spring of 2021, Sydney helped organize a signature event for the book club, attended by over one hundred Duke students, inviting former death row inmate Anthony Ray Hinton. to speak about his experiences as an unfairly condemned black man in the state of Alabama.