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Seyward Darby, of Greenville, North Carolina, a Benjamin N. Duke Scholar who will graduate in May with a major in English, a minor in political science and a certificate in policy journalism and mass media studies. Darby is heavily involved with The Chronicle, Duke's independent daily student newspaper. As a junior, she served as the paper's editor, overseeing as staff of more than 100 volunteers and acting as a public representative for the organization. She has also tutored at two Durham community centers and sat on the executive board of the tutoring program Project Child. In 2004, Darby interned at the Center for Community Safety in Winston-Salem, where she helped manage a Community Outreach Partnership Center project, funded by a neighborhood revitalization grant from the U.S. Office of Housing and Urban Development. During the summer of 2006, Darby traveled to Trang, Thailand, where she taught English to children at a local public school, and then backpacked across Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. |
