Featured Reflections

An “Outsider” Feels Invited Into an Unexpected Community
PublishedOctober 25, 2024 by Angela Chen

For her oral story on contemplating her identity at the Anacostia Community Museum during her experience in DukeEngage Washington, …
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A Firefly in a Sea of Fireworks
PublishedOctober 25, 2024 by Isha Omer

For her submission to the 2024 DukeEngage Reflection Challenge, Isha Omer T’27 created a concrete poem about her experience in …
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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 …
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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 …
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Finding the Path with Tariqa
PublishedOctober 25, 2024 by Lucas Lin

For his photoessay on the religious life of a mosque in Senegal, Lucas Lin T’27 won the Cultural Context category …
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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 …
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“I’m Sorry,” and All That Paperwork Can’t Say
PublishedOctober 25, 2024 by Sarah Konrad

For her oral story about her experience working with the Refugee Rights Unit at the University of Cape Town …
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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 — …
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“An Unlikely Ally”: Reflections on Democracy at Risk
PublishedJanuary 25, 2024 by Gabrielle Mollin

In this column, originally published in the Duke Chronicle, Gabrielle Mollin T’26 reflects on how working on common goals can …
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From Classroom to Cow Farm: What I Learned in DukeEngage Costa Rica
PublishedDecember 01, 2023 by Dhruv Rungta

I bike through the verdant jungle, my tires humming as they brush against moist soil. Howler monkeys call in the …
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“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 …
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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 …
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“The Transformative Power of Collective Action”: Reflections from DukeEngage Marine Lab Students
PublishedAugust 25, 2023 by Jack Balint-Kurti, Ian Connolly, Nikki Jakkinpali, Jake Marrs, Gabe Mendoza, and Jack Sanitate

As partners at the Duke Marine Lab, we have spent the last six weeks collaborating with a variety of education …
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“Making Thirteen-Year-Old Me Proud”: Teaching Girls STEM in Orange County
PublishedAugust 24, 2023 by Emma Huang

Working with Girls Incorporated (Girls, Inc.) of Orange County, Calif., DukeEngage Orange County students teach at a four-week, STEM-focused summer …
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“One of the Hardest Things I’ve Ever Had to Do”: Working with Refugees in Cape Town
PublishedAugust 24, 2023 by Malachy Sullivan

DukeEngage Cape Town works with organizations providing assistance to migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Cape Town, South Africa. This reflection …
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The meaning of a summer, not the meaning of life
PublishedOctober 31, 2022 by Hana Stepnick

Both before the summer and now, I was a bit taken aback that DukeEngage asked us these questions. They’re comically, …
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Make sunshine, not shade.
PublishedOctober 20, 2022 by Anna Schilling

On Thursday, 21in’21 (a grassroots organization promoting womxn-identifying candidates for local office) had its first meeting for the newly formed …
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Engineering healthcare solutions in Uganda
PublishedOctober 20, 2022 by Tommy Klug

This summer’s DukeEngage Uganda cohort brought together eight Duke engineers and eight Ugandan engineers from Makerere University with the goal …
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