In May, two of the Hart Leadership Program’s 2023-2024 Hart Fellows – Quinn Smith ’23 and Sophia Chimbanda ’23 – concluded their Fellowships after a year of community-engaged work and research. Ayesham Khan ’23, who is also a 2023-2024 Hart Fellow, will complete their Fellowship year in Cape Town, South Africa, in October. Over the […]
Gun violence is a collective issue that affects every American, particularly young people in schools and on college campuses. In a recent article for The Chronicle, Andrew Sun (SOL Fellow ’22) and his co-author Alexander Denza issue a call to action for students to rise up and advocate for change. Sun, along with a collective […]
The Sanford School of Public Policy Executive Education and the Hart Leadership Program present a six-session intensive course: “Community Engagement and Participatory Design.” This three-week intensive course, presented by Prof. Andrew Nurkin, Director of the Hart Leadership Program, explores the theory and practice of community engaged leadership in public service. Beginning with an assets-based framework, […]
Former SOL Fellow Chitra Balakrishnan (T’21) has been awarded the Ole R. Holsti Prize for excellence in undergraduate research using primary sources for political science or public policy. The awards are distributed by the Duke University Libraries to recognize orginial research and writing of Duke students and encouraging the use of library resources. Balakrishnan’s winning […]
Former PEP fellow, Jeremy Carballo Pineda (PPS ’22) published an interview with Grammy-nominated musician and former Durham Councilman, Pierce Freelon. In the article, published by the IndyWeek Newspaper, Pineda Carballo interviews Freelon about his Grammy nomination for his children’s album Black to the Future as well as the local influences that impacted Freelon’s development, not […]
Former Hart Fellow Sujal Manohar was among three Duke alumni named in the inaugural class of Samvid Scholars! Samvid Scholars was founded in 2021 by Samvid Ventures to invest in the graduate education of future leaders who are committed to effecting positive change in society, and provides up to $50,000 tuition and fees to the […]