Danya Belkin is a Junior from Santa Barbara, California, studying Political Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Spanish. She plans to obtain a law degree after graduation. Before attending Duke, she took a gap year in Israel (2020-2021). Danya has been active in Latin and Jewish communities since high school. She is President of Duke Friends of Israel and founded Jewtinos@Duke (a Jewish-Latino student group). Two summers ago she interned at the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a legal nonprofit focused on combating anti-Semitism. As the culmination of her internship, she organized a conference at Duke titled “Common Ground: Anti-Semitism, Zionism and Dialogue.” Last summer she interned at the immigration law firm, Goldstein & Lee, P.C. where she learned much about immigration. Danya also studied in Madrid, Spain, during the Fall 2023 semester. In her free time, Danya enjoys traveling.