Duke Community Panel

Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 7:00 PM until 8:30 PMEastern Daylight Time UTC -04:00

Duke Community Panels are 90-minutes long and bring together current students, alumni, parents, faculty, and staff from across the Duke community to share their personal experiences, stories, and connections to Duke. Each program will be recorded and available for viewing on-demand at the Duke Admissions YouTube channel. You can read more about the panelists below.

Dr. Christine Folch
Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy
Folch was just appointed Peter Lange Faculty Director of DukeEngage. Folch studies and writes about culture, power, and politics. Her latest book was just published--entitled “The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History” (with Princeton), the book follows the cultural odysseys of yerba mate 🧉, the stimulating beverage popular in southern South America and its lesser-known but equally delightful caffeinated Ilex/holly-family cousins guayusa (Amazonia) and yaupon (southern North America). Her writings on cuisine, culture, and history have appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, and Scalawag. Her first book Hydropolitics: The Itaipú Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America (Princeton UPress, 2019) draws on more than a decade of ethnography among energy elites in Paraguay as well as Brazil as they administer the resources of the world’s largest hydroelectric dam Itaipu Binational (Brazil-Paraguay) to show how electricity is tied up with politics and sovereignty.

Natalia Hauser
Trinity, '24
Natalia studied Sociology with a Minor in Music and a Certificate in Markets and Management. Originally from Hollywood, Florida, she’s now based in New York City, working full-time as a content creator represented by Wasserman Group. Alongside her creative work, Natalia is launching her own social media brand-building consulting agency. While at Duke, she proudly served as Editor-in-Chief of @DukeStudents, sharing behind-the-scenes content about the Duke student experience and managing a team of over 25 interns and editors. A passionate foodie, Natalia loved exploring Durham’s vibrant food scene and now enjoys discovering new restaurants across NYC.

Sarah Goh
Trinity, '25
Sara is a senior (c/o 2025) from Singapore majoring in Environmental Science & Policy (B.S.) and minoring in Psychology at Duke. On campus, Sara volunteers her time at two research labs: the Gibert Lab studying protists and climate change, and the Levin Lab studying neurobehavioral toxicology in zebrafish and rats. She is highly engaged with the Duke Singaporean Students’ Association, First Generation Investors (an organization dedicated to teaching high schoolers personal finance), the United World Colleges Davis Scholar Student Organization, and as a tour guide on campus. Over the past summer, Sara learned about sea turtle biology and conservation and assisted on research projects on oysters and cephalopods at the Duke University Marine Lab in Beaufort, NC. In her free time, Sara enjoys skiing and snowboarding, despite being from a tropical country, crocheting, and running along the Al Buehler trail.

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