In June, Kathy Tran (T’00) won the Democratic primary for the District 42 House of Delegates race in Virginia, and will be on the ballot in November. For most of her professional career Kathy Tran worked for the U.S. Department of Labor, and most recently she worked for a nonprofit organization on immigration reform issues. …
read moreCraig Cohen ('96) and Matt Reisman ('00) were both a part of the Hart Leadership Program when they were undergraduates at Duke. Now, as HLP prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary, we asked these two alums to look back and tell us a story—in their own words—from their experiences that has stayed with them all these…
read moreOn Monday, November 16th, Tony Brown brought together 38 students and 38 Duke alumni, faculty, and Durham community members for an evening of conversation. As Tony framed it, “The core purpose of this session was to do something more than a traditional ‘meet and greet’ - it was to begin to explore ways to build…
read moreTony Brown hosted his sixth 36 Hours at Duke weekend which focused on innovation and entrepreneurship September 25th – 27th. The weekend connected students and alumni to work on specific ideas and allows them to recapture a sense of what it means to participate in the extended Duke community. Alumni Mia Wise (’14) flew in…
read moreDuke’s Center for Documentary Studies will host the U.S. launch of former Hart Fellow Eric Gottesman’s first book, Sudden Flowers, on February 26th from 6pm to 8pm. During his Hart Fellowship in 1999 and 2000, Gottesman collaborated with Sudden Flowers, a collective of children living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (mostly AIDS orphans) to reimagine the harsh realities they experienced…
read more