Spring 2025

Luisa Vega
 

Founder and CEO, Psych Health Associates
 

M.S.N.'13 Nursing; D.N.P.'14 Doctor of Nursing Practice

Deb Liu
 

Technology Executive
 

B.S.E.’98 Civil Engineering

Michael Sorrell
 

President of Paul Quinn College
 

M.P.P.’90 Public Policy Studies; J.D.’94 Law

Jane Anderson Terlesky
 

Film and television actress as Jayne Brook
 

’82 Drama

Ted Kaufman 
 

Former U.S. senator from Delaware
 

Presidential Citizens Medal recipient
 

B.S.E.’60 Mechanical Engineering

Melissa Bernstein 
 

Co-founder of Melissa & Doug toy company
 

Duke trustee
 

’87 Public Policy Studies

Scott Rosenfeld
Professor of orthopedic surgery at Baylor College of Medicine
Team doctor for Team USA at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
’97 Psychology

Ibtihaj Muhammad 
U.S. Olympic medalist in fencing
Children's book author
’07 International Comparative Studies

Lisa Borders
Business executive
Former president of the WNBA
Duke trustee
’79 French

Deborah Lee James 
Business and government executive
Former U.S. secretary of the Air Force
’79 Comparative Studies

Chad Nelsen
CEO of Surfrider Foundation
M.E.M.’96 Coastal Environmental Management

Joseph Turek
Duke chief of pediatric cardiac surgery
M.B.A.’20

Carmichael Roberts
Co-founder and managing partner of Material Impact
Duke trustee
’90 Chemistry; Ph.D.’95 Chemistry

Tarang Amin 
Chairman and CEO of e.l.f. Beauty
’87 Public Policy Studies
M.B.A.’91

Adam Silver
Commissioner of the NBA
Chair of Duke Board of Trustees
’84 Political Science

Danny Werfel
 Business executive
 Former IRS commissioner 
M.P.P.’97 Public Policy Studies

Cameron Oglesby
Environmental justice advocate
Senior officer at Climate United
’21 Environmental Science and Policy
M.P.P.’23 Public Policy Studies
 

Tim Cook
CEO Apple
Duke trustee
M.B.A.’88 Management

Scott Peters
U.S. representative from California
’80 Political Science
 

Leslie Olonyi Bosire
Environmental and natural resources lawyer
LL.M.’20 Law
 

The Campaign Issue

Taylor Price
Senior manager, global sustainability, AptarGroup Inc.
M.E.M.’18 Environmental Economics and Policy

Anne CC Lee
Global maternal child health researcher
Levinger Family Professor of Pediatrics at Brown University
B.S.E.’96 Biomedical Engineering
 

Dan Blue
North Carolina state senator
J.D.’73 Law

Kelli Luginbuhl
Co-founder and CEO of Isolere Bio Inc.
M.S.E.’14 Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D.’17 Biomedical Engineering
 

Rob Califf
Cardiologist, professor and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
’73 Psychology
M.D.’78

Angela Alsobrooks
U.S. senator from Maryland
’93 Public Policy Studies

Annabeth Gish
Film and television actress
 ’93 English

John Antonelli
Co-founder of Real social sports platform
’23 Computer Science

Jay Bilas
ESPN basketball analyst
Former Duke basketball star and assistant coach
’86 Political Science
J.D.’92 Law

Valerie Hillings
Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art
’93 Art and Art History

Yoav Lurie
SaaS entrepreneur
Founder Simple Energy (now Uplight)
’05, Public Policy Studies

William Kaelin Recipient of 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School ’79 Mathematics and Chemistry M.D.’83

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