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Kevin York-Simmons was a Hart Fellow in Honduras from 1999-2000 with the
Christian Commission on Development. As a Hart Fellow, Kevin acted as a liaison between
Honduran community organizations and visiting work teams.
Kevin graduated from Duke in 1998. While at Duke, he participated in the Hart Leadership
Program's Refugee Action Project in the former Yugoslavia, and also spent a summer with
Newcomer's Network, working with refugee children in Atlanta, Georgia. Kevin spent the
year following graduation from Duke working with Lutheran Family Services doing refugee
resettlement work in Jacksonville, Florida. In 2002, Kevin completed a master's degree
in ethics from Yale University. In 2003, he entered a PhD program in ethics at Vanderbilt
University, focusing on theological and philosophical ethics as well as building upon his
work as a Hart Fellow through the study of postcolonial and liberation responses to
development and trade policies in Latin America. He married Noelle York in August,
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