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Mark Younger is a 2005-2006 Hart Fellow working in Guatemala.
Mark Younger from Menlo Park, California, graduated
from Duke in 2003 with an electrical and computer engineering major
and a religion minor. He has conducted service work in Mexico, Peru,
Romania and Jamaica, and was active as an undergraduate with the
Duke Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Agape Corner, and the Durham
Rescue Mission. Since graduation he has been the director of the
DELTA Smart House, a cross-disciplinary initiative at Duke to give
practical design experience to undergraduate engineers and educate
the public about cutting-edge technologies for the home of the future.
In this capacity, he has managed more than 40 engineering students
every semester, helped design the smart house architecture, and
sustained collaborative research partnerships with industry. He
is working in Cotzal, Guatemala, with the AGROS Foundation, which
works with rural poor families in developing countries to help them
break free from poverty through such initiatives as land acquisition,
building village infrastructure, and developing economic capacity.
Mark’s advisor is Greg
Dees, Adjunct Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit
Management at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.
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