DukeEngage’s Impact on Students Goes Beyond Graduation PublishedDecember 17, 2025 by DukeEngage Team DukeEngage conducts surveys every five years to gather information about the program’s impact on alumni during their time at Duke … Read more
Signatures of Hope from la Sierra PublishedDecember 16, 2025 by Sophia Fratta For her submission to the 2025 DukeEngage Reflection Challenge, Sophia Fratta T’28 wrote a reflective essay about her experience learning … Read more
We Do Have Enough: A Reflection on Grassroots Organizations PublishedDecember 16, 2025 by Linda Garziera For her entry to the DukeEngage Reflection Challenge, Linda Garziera T’28 submitted an essay on working with the organization Asociación … Read more
Patriotic Protesting: A Foundation of Democracy PublishedDecember 16, 2025 by Leo Goldberg For his reflective essay after participating in DukeEngage DC – Democracy at Risk, Leo Goldberg T’28 won the Courage and … Read more
What Do We Know? Reflections from Bengaluru PublishedOctober 25, 2024 by Diya Patel For her reflective essay on her experience teaching in an ashram with DukeEngage India in Bengaluru, Diya Patel T’26 … Read more
No Such Thing as Too Many Sunsets PublishedOctober 25, 2024 by Sierra Putney For her reflective essay on her experience working at the Bantu Cultural Institute in DukeEngage Brazil – Bahia, Sierra Putney … Read more
DukeEngage Kaihura Knows Change PublishedOctober 25, 2024 by Zofia Chmiel For her Ignite talk about her experience building a secondary school in Kaihura, Uganda with Duke Engineers for International … Read more
Finding Community, During and After DukeEngage PublishedFebruary 16, 2024 by Jason Kreinberg, Dhruv Rungta In the following profiles, two students share how DukeEngage programs helped them to connect to communities on the ground — … Read more
“Increasingly Aware of Life”: Ceremonies, Markets, and “Adventure” in Togo PublishedAugust 25, 2023 by Sasha Faison DukeEngage Togo collaborates on several projects with two Togolese villages, Kuwde (in the mountains) and Farendé (on the plains). Most … Read more
Programming that Matters: Creating a Digital Platform to Streamline NGO Reporting in Jordan PublishedAugust 25, 2023 by Leah Nickelsburg In this first year of the DukeEngage Jordan program, students worked with partnering organization ILearn on a variety of projects … Read more