As part of our effort to uplift student voices during this important election season, the Hart Leadership Program was delighted to host the Why Vote? Video Challenge. A total of eighty-eight Duke students participated in the spring and fall contests, submitting seventy-one 30-second videos aimed at convincing non-voters to vote. The non-partisan messages spoke to…
read moreOn August 13, 2020, the Hart Leadership Program, in collaboration with POLIS and Center for Documentary Studies, hosted On The Freedom Side: The Promise of a New Democracy Led by Youth Advocacy. The featured speaker at this event was Professor Wesley Hogan, director of the Center for Documentary Studies and author of the recent book…
read moreThe Hart Leadership Program capped off its semester of Connect2Politics events with a discussion of the uses of data for organizing Monday evening. The student moderated discussion featured featuring Amy Cox and Briana Brough, co-founders of Flip NC, and Karthik Balasubramanian Pratt ‘07, an assistant professor at Howard University and founder of the 14 Cities initiative. Panelists…
read moreMore than 75 people gathered to hear from Lyndsey Gilpin, founder and editor of Southerly Magazine, Tuesday evening. Gilpin spoke about her experience as an environmental journalist focusing on the South. The event was co-sponsored by the Hart Leadership Program and the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy. Independent and nonprofit, the news site…
read moreThis week, Mayor Pro Tempore Jillian Johnson PPS'03 joined HLP Associate Director Lalita Kaligotla's Lead the Way Durham class to talk about the city's experience with participatory budgeting. Kaligotla opened her class to other students and Sanford community members interested in the subject. Ultimately, approximately 35 people attended the event. Earlier this year, all Durham…
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