2023 Patman Political Engagement Project (PEP) Fellow and 2022 Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL) Fellow Khilan Walker is featured in Duke Today’s summer writing initiative, “Duke Diary Dispatches.” Khilan will be sharing a series of blog posts this summer as he completes his PEP internship in partnership with Sanctuary for Families in New York City, […]
The Hart Leadership Program is excited to announce our Patman Political Engagement Project (PEP) fellows’ summer work. As part of the PEP experience, PEP fellows receive a summer stipend to conduct politically-engaged thesis research or internships. The 2023 PEP Fellows are putting their minds to work on a diverse array of political themes. Elizabeth Berenguer […]
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 […]
Caroline Avery, PPS ’22, is looking to create a new generation of civic leaders through her PEP Fellows project. The PEP Fellows program, an undergraduate experience offered through the Hart Leadership Program and Polis, provides students with resources to explore democracy in depth. This past year, students in the PEP Fellows program took on the […]
PEP Fellow Jeremy Carballo-Pineda (PPS ’22) published an op-ed in Indy Week that emphasizes the importance of upholding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, for the “sake of the nation’s economic growth”. DACA is a policy enacted in 2012 by President Barak Obama that protects about 800,000 young people, known as “DREAMers,” from deportation […]
Anna Klingensmith (T ’21) and Nadia Innab (T ’21), two 2020 Political Engagement Project (PEP) Fellows, wrote a section of a bill that will be presented to the General Assembly of North Carolina. The “Fix Our Democracy” Bill, sponsored by Senator Jeff Jackson and Representative Ashton Wheeler Clemmons, intends to remove barriers to voting access. […]