2015 commencement

COMMENCEMENT 2015

RECIPIENTS OF THE CERTIFICATE IN LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN STUDIES

UNDERGRADUATE CERTIFICATES

Kaley Chase Deal

Major: Public Policy Studies

While at Duke• DukeEngage Chile 2013• DukeImmerse: Human Rights in the

Americas• Leadership and Arts Policy

Internship in Medellín, Colombia• Duke Brazil Initiative Undergraduate

Research FellowFavorite courses (some): - African Dance Tech II with Ava Vinesett - Intro to Contemporary Latin America with Antonio Arce - Latin American Left Turns with John French - Black Brazil: Race/Nation/Culture with Lamonte Aidoo - Gender & Sexuality in Latin America with Diane Nelson - Portuguese with Magda Silva

Upon Graduation

Will be working on the One Person, One Vote project, documenting the history and legacy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Liliana Fiorenti

Majors: Political Science & French

While at Duke

• DukeEngage Chile 2013• Studied abroad at Sciences Po in Paris,

France

Favorite courses: - Intro to Contemporary Latin America with Antonio Arce - Intro to Latino/a Studies with Antonio Viego

Honors Thesis: Increasing Access to Selective

Institutions of Higher

Education for Minority

Students in France and the United

States

Upon Graduation

Look for paralegal work in the Washington, D.C. area and in a few years, apply to law school

Andrew Woodall Kragie

Majors: Political Science & Public Policy Studies

While at Duke

• Service trips to Costa Rica• DukeEngage Brazil 2013• Duke Brazil Initiative

Undergraduate Research Fellow

• Deans’ Summer Research Fellowship

• Pi Sigma Alpha• Interfaith Council• GANO

Favorite Professors: Guillermo Trejo, Bethzaida Fernandez, Magda Silva, Michael Munger, Peter Feaver, Corinne Krupp, Cathy Shuman, Gerald Wilson

Upon Graduation

Journalism in Texas

Major: Earth & Ocean SciencesMinor: Environmental Science & Policy

Hector Giovanni Rivera

While at Duke• DukeEngage Chile 2012• EOS field trips to the

Amazon, Andes, & Ireland

• Duke in Australia & Singapore

• Mellon Undergraduate Research Grant and a Paul Baker GrantFavorite courses:

- Evolving Earth and Life with Alexander Glass - Human Rights, Dictatorships and Memory in Latin America with Bryan Pitts - Meet the Beatles with Thomas Brothers - Volcanology: Geology of Hawaii with Alan Boudreau

Upon Graduation

Hoping to pursue a doctorate in Geology

Jordyn Freddi Silverstein

Major: BiologyMinor: Chemistry

While at Duke Honors Thesis: Prediagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents

• DukeEngage Guatemala• Studied abroad in Buenos

Aires, Argentina• Durham Regent Retirement

home volunteer• Lenox Baker Children’s

Hospital volunteer• Phi Beta Kappa Honors

Society• Deans List with Distinction

Favorite courses: - Coming of Age at Duke with Sheryl Welte - Physiological Genetics of Disease with Frederick Nijhout - Aging and Health with Deborah Gold

Upon Graduation

Life Sciences Consulting with Simon-Kucher in New York City