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Lauren Jarvis is a 2005-2006 Hart Fellow working in South Africa.
Lauren Jarvis from Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
graduated from Duke this spring with a history major. A Benjamin
N. Duke Scholar, she conducted an oral history project at the District
Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa. She has also worked with
the Southern Oral History Project at the University of North Carolina
on a range of issues that includes union membership in North Carolina,
black communities in downtown areas destroyed by revitalization
efforts, and desegregation in Chapel Hill. She has tutored at-risk
elementary school children, helped a Liberian family ease its transition
to the United States, and is the co-creator and editor of Saturday
Night at Duke: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Duke. She
is working in Stellenbosch, South Africa, with Women on Farms, a
local organization that works to empower women farmworkers to improve
their living and working conditions and achieve gender equality
in the workplace, the home, the farming community and in broader
society. Her faculty advisor is Karin
Shapiro, Visiting Assistant Professor of History.
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