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…
read moreHart 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…
read morePEP 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…
read moreAnna 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.…
read moreHart affiliated creative writing teacher Faulkner Fox wrote a reflection on her experience in Georgia with Durham get-out-the-vote group, Bull City Votes in the midst of the run-off elections and the storming of the capitol. "What do these most recent Georgia victories mean to Professor Fox? "They mean that the South, a place with a…
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