Hart Leadership Program class “Plays That Change the World,” taught by instructor Faulkner Fox, was featured in Duke Magazine’s Winter 2021 edition. The political theater workshop, which ran for the second time in Fall 2021, encouraged students to engage with works of political theater and then create their own plays. Read more about “Plays That […]
This summer, Lizzy Kramer (T’22) worked with Durham-born artist John Felix Arnold III as part of the Leadership and Arts Policy Internship (LAPI), a signature program of the Hart Leadership Program that provides funding for students to pursue internships related to arts policy. Kramer assisted Arnold’s work on his latest solo exhibition, Time As A […]
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 […]
Aditya Santoki (SOL ’19) and faculty advisor Sanford professor Nathan Boucher recently published an article in the North Carolina Medical Journal examining barriers to vaccination in Durham County’s vulnerable adult populations. This article stems from research Santoki conducted through his community based research (CBR) project supported by SOL funding in summer 2019. Santoki interviewed fifty-four patients […]
Former SOL student Quinn Smith (T’23/PPS’23) is one of two recipients of the Udall Scholarship, which recognizes students who have demonstrated a commitment to careers in the environment or Native American tribal public policy. Hailing from Albuquerque, NM and a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Quinn is only one of nine students awarded the Udall […]
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. […]