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. […]
HLP Director, & Bass professor of public policy and history, Gunther Peck, and POLIS Research Director. & associate professor of public policy, Deondra Rose, are delighted to announce a new fellowship for non PPS majors, up to four Democracy Fellows, who will collaborate with Political Engagement Project (PEP) fellows in supporting the political and leadership […]
This past year, the “Elections in a Pandemic” Bass Connections student research team researched and implemented innovative strategies to increase voter participation in the 2020 election. While ten student teams operated in different focus areas, three in particular stood out for their work which went above and beyond. The Transportation team, consisting of Grant Lyerly […]