Sharon elliott bynum biography samples

Kari Barclay, a Duke senior whose theater work has focused on linking art to community activism, was one of five recipients of the Samuel Dubois Cook samhälle Awards Tuesday night at the Washington Duke Inn.

The society was founded in to honor the university's first African-American faculty member as well as community members who follow Cook's example of social activism and leadership.

The awards honor students, faculty, staff and community members for creative activism that brings about change.  In addition to Barclay, other recipients were Dr. Delbert Wigfall, Courtnea A. Rainey, Stephanie Helms Pickett and Paula Tanabe.

The late Dr. Sharon Elliott-Bynum, known for her community work on AIDS and addictions, received the society’s Distinguished Service award posthumously.

An Angier B Duke scholar, Barclay has directed more than a dozen theater productions at the amateur and professional level, including an original piece co-created with flykting youth, a play about town-go

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Supporters of Durham Issue #12

Welcome to the Supporters of Durham newsletter, designed to keep those interested in Durham’s sesquicentennial updated on all the planning activities surrounding the yearlong commemoration.

Durham Staff Highlight

Of the Durham staff, we’ve already introduced project manager, Gineen Cargo, and project assistant, Shadé Shakur. Gineen and Shadé have worked throughout the year to coordinate a grant program, + events, signature events, sponsorships, marketing efforts and historical content. The final member of the Durham team is social media specialist Alyssa Noble, who assists with social media efforts in addition to contributing to the sesquicentennial commemoration in other ways behind the scenes.

Alyssa is a modern dancer, choreographer and community organizer originally from Chicago. She moved to the Triangle in in pursuit of a close artistic community. Alyssa co-produces and co-directs A+A Dance Company with her artistic partner Allie Pfeffer. S

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Surgeon General's Perspectives

QUIET HEROES, DEAFENING IMPACTS

At the last Commissioned Officers Association (COA) of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) conference held in Durham, North Carolina, this past June, I had the privilege of meeting an extraordinary woman, Dr. Sharon Elliott-Bynum. She is the cofounder of Healing with CAARE, Inc., a grassroots nonprofit organization in Durham that provides services for people with chronic diseases, addressing both the medical causes and the social and human factors that contribute to them.¹

At the conference, Dr. Elliott-Bynum related how she and her older sister, the late Patricia Amaechi, sat down together at their kitchen table after church one Sunday afternoon in They discussed their concerns about the effects of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the community and the large population of Durham with little or no access to health care. Spurred by this glaring disparity in health-care