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Katie Wilson-Milne is a 2005-2006 Hart Fellow working in South Africa.
Katie Wilson-Milne from Needham, Massachusetts,
graduated from Duke this spring with a public policy studies and
African American Studies major and German minor. As an undergraduate,
she conducted an anthropological research project in Ghana investigating
women’s self-perceptions of domestic power dynamics and women’s
agency in the home environment. She has also lived and worked in
Uruguay, Romania and Zimbabwe; interned at the Center for Civil
Rights, the Center for Public Integrity, and Boston Medical Center;
and helped found the Duke chapter of the Feminist Majority Leadership
Alliance. In May, she received The Fleishman Distinguished Scholar
Award, which recognizes the graduating major with the highest academic
achievement in Public Policy. (She also received a Fulbright, which
she declined in lieu of the Hart Fellowship.) Katie is working in
Durban, South Africa, with the Legal Resources Centre’s Women’s
Rights Project. Her faculty advisor is Catherine Admay, Visiting
Lecturer in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy.
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