Meet Team Kenan!
Team Kenan is a part of the Institute’s social and intellectual community, creating spaces for students, faculty, and Institute staff to think and talk about ethics outside of the classroom in fun and engaging ways. TK programs serve as a complement to the Institute’s curricular offerings, giving students who are interested in ethics additional opportunities to chat, think, and challenge one another and the wider Duke community. The team, made up of a diverse cross-section of Duke students, engages the Duke community through interviewing and informal conversations. Students conduct in-depth interviews with Duke students, faculty, and staff, as well as community members, on topics relevant to this time. They also host bi-weekly conversations for Duke students on topics like electoral politics, virtual learning, and relationships during COVID. Meant to inspire moments of connection, the TK team brings ethical inquiry to Duke students wherever they might be.
We welcome our new (and returning) members of the team!
Akshita Raghuvanshi
Akshita Raghuvanshi is a freshman in the Pratt School of Engineering. She is interested in biomedical engineering, psychology, and medicine.
Carolyn Huynh
Carolyn Huynh a senior from Dallas, Texas, and is an alumna of Project Change. She is considering co-majoring in Global Health and Neuroscience and is interested in the field of integrative medicine. You can usually find her drinking coffee at Vondy, watching Worth It Buzzfeed videos, or doing both at the same time.
Charlotte Navin Weinstein
Charlotte is a sophomore from London, UK who loves to sing and beat random GA residents at Ping-Pong. She is passionate about Women’s and Human Rights.
Jeremy Carballo
Jeremy Carballo is a junior double majoring in public policy and political science with a concentration in normative political theory. On campus, he is involved in GANO and the Chronicle Editorial Board. He is currently a John M. Belk Fellow for the Hunt Institute where he works on educational equity policy. His research interests include structural Marxism, federalism, and amnesty for undocumented childhood arrival immigrants. After college, he plans on attending law school and focusing on constitutional law, or obtaining a masters in international affairs.
JJ Jiang
JJ is a junior from Toronto, Canada, majoring in Economics with minors in Psychology and Sociology. She loves learning about consumer psychology, decision science, and ethical technology. Some of her favourite hobbies include thrifting, cooking and watching crime TV shows.
Kyle Melatti
Kyle Melatti is a junior and future public policy and economics double major interested in ethics and ethical decision making as a part of the political process. He currently serves as a Senator for Duke Student Government on the Committee for Durham and Regional Affairs and also has a secondary appointment to the Senate Judiciary Committee. In his free time, he attends talks and presentations offered by the University to learn more about the issues going on in the world and what can be done to help.
Lukengu Tshiteya
Lukengu Tshiteya hails from Dallas, TX. He loves eating cucumbers and completing jigsaw puzzles. He is excited to make a difference at Duke and in the Durham community.
Maya Yvette-Lofton
Maya is a junior double majoring in ICS (focus Latin America & the Caribbean) and Cultural Anthropology with a certificate in Latin@ Studies in the Global South. She is a residential assistant and is also involved with a few cultural organizations on campus such as The Bridge and Mi Gente. She's interested in U.S. immigration policy and Brazilian identity politics and plans to explore these issues more profoundly as a Foreign Service Officer.
Miriam Shams-Rainey
Miriam Shams-Rainey is a sophomore from Dallas, Texas. She is an alumna of Project Change and is currently in the Ethics, Leadership, and Global Citizenship FOCUS program with academic interests ranging from social policy to music theory. Miriam enjoys writing poetry, thrift shopping, and trying to play pop songs on the violin. She is very excited to be a part of Team Kenan and to examine ethics in the Duke and Durham communities.
Olivia Reneau
Olivia Reneau is 3rd-year undergraduate student from Niceville, Florida. She is studying Public Policy with a concentration in domestic policy and racial wealthy inequality, history of the American south, and Japanese language. After graduation, she intends to work in policy research before pursuing her PhD in history or economics. She believes that reparations and reconciliation are the key to beginning to mend our fractured country and has a special interest (academic and personal) in these things as a result.
Rand Alotaibi
Rand Alotaibi is a senior from Saudi Arabia majoring in Earth and Ocean Sciences with a certificate in Documentary Studies. On campus, she is involved with Duke SOA, Injaz and Duke Arab Association.
Rishi Dasgupta
Rishi Dasgupta is completely undecided on what he wants to study, but he tells people he is a prospective neuroscience major. He loves cooking and trying new things, and his best friend is his golden retriever, Luna.