After the 2015 fall semester, Elena was recognized along with fellow CDS instructor Tim Tyson for having course evaluations among the top 5 percent of all undergraduate instructors at Duke. http://www.cdsporch.org/archives/25512
By popular demand, we will be teaching a one-day workshop on Video Storytelling for Social Change at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University this spring! Video is everywhere, but effective storytelling is rare. How can people working on social change issues use video stories to connect to a target audience on an emotional level? …
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Research shows that students tend to lose interest in the sciences in middle school. BOOST is a STEM enrichment program that makes science fun and accessible. To date, BOOST has served over 500 Durham Public School students with the help of Durham Public School teachers, Duke University graduate and undergraduate students and faculty, Duke University …
In 2013, this video won the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation video award for highlighting the work of Northern Piedmont Community Care (NPPC). NPPC is a community-based care management system that is patient-focused and cost-effective. NPCC provides transitional care, chronic disease management, social work services, service coordination, access support, health education, and nutrition counseling.
In 2008 and 2009 I served as the On-The-Ground Coordinator for the Literacy Through Photography (LTP) Tanzania program through Duke Engage. Each summer my colleague Katie Hyde and I took eight students to Arusha, Tanzania for two months where we trained teachers using LTP’s participatory education methodology and taught photography and writing lessons to children in local schools.