Hayden and his GRAVIS co-workers interview a local villager about his opinions on local governance.

Hayden Kantor from Pleasantville, New York, graduated from Duke this spring with a political science major and English and history minors. His senior thesis examined the rates of violence against civilians in ethnic civil wars. As an undergraduate, he conducted research at a Liberian refugee camp in Ghana. While studying abroad in New Zealand, he hitchhiked solo across the country. He has interned at New York Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey's office and completed a triathlon and half-marathon. Hayden is working in Jodhpur, India, with GRAVIS, a local non-governmental organization dedicated to working with the poor to foster rural development. His advisor is Anirudh Krishna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science.


Click here to read Hayden's op-ed, "The Face of Child Labor."

 


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