Reed Gilbert (ex-officio)

Reed Gilbert is President of the Public Policy Majors Union and a Duke senior. His public policy interests include education, segregation and philanthropy.  He is currently writing a thesis on how philanthropic foundations are reacting to the economic recession and changing their grant-making to the arts.  For his public policy internship, he worked at TROSA (Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers) in the special projects office creating a PR truck for their Christmas sales.  Gilbert has worked for professors Ananat and Clotfelter as a research assistant on a project examining racial integration in high schools via extracurricular activities. 

Outside of the public policy realm, he has served as Outing Club president, led the freshman orientation program, PWaves, and taught African drumming and music to Durham middle school students, with the Duke Djembe Ensemble.

Gilbert has spent the last two summers in London working for an international cable TV company doing mergers and acquisitions, and managing their portfolio of minority investments. 

Fleishman Commons, Sanford Building
Fleishman Commons
Sanford Building