DUKE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION - Key Persons
Bentley Choi is gearing up for a busy semester. It's her second year at Duke, and, in classic Blue Devil fashion, she's taking on a lot. She's prepping for the LSAT. She's an R.A. in Edens. She's finalizing the proposal for a major of her own design. She's realigning herself from biology and quantitative research to the more qualitative side of public health.
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- Director, Strategic Business Analytics
Delecia oversees the magazine's administrative operations, including accounting, advertising, and mailings.
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- Professor of Polish and Russian Studies
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- Chairman of the Department of African & African American Studies
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- Associate Professor of Sustainability Science
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- Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies
Mark Anthony Neal is Chair of the Department of African & African American Studies and the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at Duke University where he offers courses on Black Masculinity, Popular Culture, and Digital Humanities, including signature courses on Michael Jackson & the Black Performance Tradition, and The History of Hip-Hop, which he co-teaches with Grammy Award Winning producer 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit).
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- Asst. Director, Volunteer Engagement
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- Director, Academic Engagement
As editor, Bliwise has overall responsibility for editorial direction and content and for representing the magazine to its various constituencies. He also teaches a seminar in magazine journalism through Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy.
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- STAFF WRITER
- Senior Staff Writer
- Writer
Scott Huler is the senior staff writer. He is the author of six non-fiction books and has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as Backpacker, Fortune, and ESPN. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He hates wearing dress-up clothes.
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- Advisor
- Associate Vice President
- Senior Associate
- Vice President
Sterly Wilder '83, of Durham, N.C., is the associate vice president for alumni affairs at Duke, where she oversees alumni engagement and programming and directs the Duke Office of Alumni Affairs. She also serves as secretary-treasurer of the Duke Alumni Association board of directors.
A lifelong Blue Devil, Sterly started her career with Duke's Office of Alumni and Development Records shortly after earning her Duke degree. In 1985, she began working with the Duke Annual Fund, where she ran the phonathon program, the young alumni program, the 55th reunion gift drive, and the Parents' Fund before becoming director of the Annual Fund in 1991. In 2004, she was named executive director of alumni affairs and was promoted to associate vice president in 2009.
Duke is integral to Sterly's life, and she views her work as a way to give back to an institution that has done so much for her and her family. Her father, Pelham Wilder, was a professor of chemistry and pharmacology on Duke's faculty for more than 50 years and served for more than two decades as university marshal. Sterly has carried on the family tradition, serving as assistant marshal.
Sterly is also an academic advisor for first-year and sophomore students, has served on the DukeTriangle alumni board, and volunteered as an alumni interviewer, as well as helping to organize the Class of 1983's fifth, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th and 30th reunions. She has also served as president of the Ronald McDonald House board of directors, the Durham Academy alumni board, the Durham Academy board of trustees and the board of the Council of Alumni Association Executives. She was actively involved with the Volunteer Center of Durham as a board member and volunteer and is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Durham and Orange Counties.
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- Director, Career and Professional Development
Thomas Gallie, professor of mathematics (and later, director of the computer science program and leader of the Triangle Universities Computation Center), saw her talent and set her up for a consultant job at Duke Hospital, where she helped develop a program that scanned for cancer.
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- Duke Sleight Club President