Spring 2007
Three Hart Fellows placed in Czech Republic, Cambodia,
Philippines
The Hart Fellows Program has placed its three fellows for the upcoming
year. The fellows will begin their research, leadership, and service
programs with organizations abroad in July 2007 and return in late
spring 2008. During their experience, they will send letters home,
which will be available online at the homepage
for the Hart Fellows Program.
The three fellows and their placements are:
-- Seyward Darby, of Greenville, N.C., a Benjamin
N. Duke Scholar who graduated in May with a major in English and
a minor in political science. Darby will work with Transitions Online,
a Prague-based media development organization that aims to improve
the state of journalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans
and the former Soviet Union. The organization publishes an award-winning
online magazine and offers training for journalists throughout the
region. Darby will review the agency’s training activities,
as well as write, report and blog.
-- Cassandra Phillips, of Denver, who graduated
in May with a major in public policy studies and a minor in economics.
Phillips will work with Homeland in Battambang, Cambodia. Homeland
aims to improve the standard of living and well-being of vulnerable
children and families. Homeland provides various services for street
children and families, including caring for formerly trafficked
children, working with children at risk of coming into conflict
with the law, and facilitating home-based care and group counseling
sessions for people living with HIV/AIDS.
-- Brian Wright, of High Point, N.C., a Benjamin
N. Duke Scholar who graduated in May with a major in environmental
sciences and policy. Wright will work with the Institute of Social
Order (ISO), based at the Ateneo de Manila University in Manila,
the Philippines. ISO, the oldest non-government organization in
the Philippines, implements community-based coastal resources management
in several coastal municipalities through its Social Transformation
and Grassroots Empowerment (STAGE) Program. In evaluating STAGE,
Wright will interact closely with community members and local government
officials at the program sites.
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