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Seven Who Changed Their Communities: Cook Award Winners Honored Tuesday

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Nearly 200 members of the Duke and Durham communities gathered Tuesday night at a Washington Duke Inn ballroom to honor the seven 2014 Samuel DuBois Cook Society Award winners for their commitment to humanity, equity and community.  The Rev. Dr. William Barber II, a graduate of the Duke Divinity School, received the distinguished service award for his leadership and activism including mobilizing thousands of North Carolinians to participate in the Moral Monday protests. He was not able to attend, but his son accepted the award on his behalf.

The award winners are: Kerry Haynie, an associate professor of political science and African and African American studies and director of Duke's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences; Naureen Huda, a Duke senior majoring in chemistry who volunteers with The Girls Club; Camille Jackson, a news writer in Duke's Office of News and Communications who led communications efforts for the 50th anniversary of the university's first black undergraduates; Patricia James, a staff specialist in the Duke Community Service Center and founder of the Durham Triple Play-Long Ball Baseball program; Roketa Shanell Sloan, a doctoral student in Duke’s Program in Genetics and Genomics and president of the Duke University Bouchet Society; and David Stein, a senior education partnership coordinator for the Duke Durham Neighborhood Partnership who runs numerous outreach programs with Durham Public Schools.

Photo by Grant Halverson