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, […]
Applications open TODAY for the Hart Fellowship – 10 months of funding and mentorship for recent Duke graduates to conduct community-based research in the US or abroad. Learn more at the information session on Thursday, November 30th at 6 PM in Sanford 201 or watch a video of the information session here. The deadline to […]
The Hart Leadership Program has announced the 2023-2024 Hart Fellows: Sophia Chimbanda, Ayesham Khan and Quinn C. Smith. All three will engage in a self-designed fellowship experience, conducting their own community-based research projects and providing direct service to their host communities. Since 1995, 113 graduating seniors or recent Duke graduates have been awarded the Hart […]
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 […]
2020-21 Hart Fellow Sujal Manohar has published an op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman regarding sidewalk access for the disabled in Austin, Texas. Manohar’s op-ed draws on her research during her Hart Fellowship in partnership with Imagine Art, a nonprofit art studio for people with disabilities in Austin. Manohar graduated from Duke in 2020 with majors […]
When Michaela Stith (Trinity ’18, SOL ’15, Hart Fellow ’18-’19) first went to Tromsø, Norway for her Hart Fellowship experience, she wasn’t anticipating writing a book. However, she collected a body of writing from her Hart Fellowship’s “Letters Home” which later became the basis of her debut book, Welp: Climate Change and Arctic Identities. Her […]