The Hart Leadership Program is proud to introduce nine students who have been awarded SOL Summer Grants. The grants are awarded to qualified undergraduates to design and conduct community-based research projects collaboratively with partner organizations for 8-12 weeks during the summer of 2018. In a competitive application process, students designed their own community based research project,…
read moreKathy Tran flipped her district and will join the Virginia House of Delegates in January. Kathy is a former SOLster who graduated from Duke in 2000. We announced her race in August. An immigrant whose family came here from Vietnam when she was a small child, Kathy will now become Virginia’s first female Asian-American delegate. You can…
read moreTomas Lopez, a lawyer with the renowned Brennan Center for Justice in New York who graduated from Duke in 2006 and participated in SOL as a sophomore, has just been named Executive Director of Democracy North Carolina. He will begin his new job in January 2018. Democracy NC is a nonpartisan organization that uses research,…
read moreWe are pleased to announce that we are offering SOL Summer Grants in 2018. SOL Summer Grants will be awarded to qualified second and third year students interested in conducting community-based research for 8-12 weeks in the summer. Students who accept the $5000 grant will participate in a series of research training modules before beginning their…
read moreIn 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. …
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