Meet the Young Trustee Finalists

Finalists announced, in-person meetings to be held

Top row: Undergraduate finalists Drew Flanagan, Sydney Hunt, and Effie Mehbod. Bottom row: Graduate and professional finalists and Joshua Crittenden, Nicole De Brigard, Eric Juarez, and Warren Lattimore.
2023 Young Trustee candidates: Top: Undergraduate finalists Drew Flanagan; Sydney Hunt; and Effie Mehbod. Bottom: Graduate and professional finalists and Joshua Crittenden; Nicole De Brigard; Eric Juarez; and Warren Lattimore.

All undergraduate and graduate & professional students are invited to attend their respective in-person meetings to meet the finalists for the Young Trustee positions and offer feedback.

Each year, two young trustees are selected: one from the undergraduate student body and the other from the graduate and professional student body. Like all members of the Duke University Board of Trustees, Young Trustees must demonstrate an ability to think broadly about the university, understand the role of the university in society, be curious about institutional issues facing Duke, and respect how universities are administered and governed.

The Undergraduate Young Trustee Finalists are as follows:

  • Drew Flanagan
  • Sydney Hunt
  • Effie Mehbod

The Graduate/Professional Young Trustee Finalists are as follows:

  • Joshua Crittenden
  • Nicole De Brigard
  • Eric Juarez
  • Warren Lattimore

For bios of the finalists, please go to https://trustees.duke.edu/young-trustee.

The Undergraduate Young Trustee Finalists meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 21, from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. ET in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room (Room 153), Rubenstein Library.

The Graduate/Professional Young Trustee Finalists meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 22, from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. ET in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room (Room 153), Rubenstein Library.

To register for your respective meeting and to submit questions for the finalists, please visit https://trustees.duke.edu/young-trustee.

Participants in the meetings will first hear from Secretary to the Board of Trustees Maggie Epps about the position. Then each finalist will have time to speak about their interest in becoming a Young Trustee. The majority of the time will be dedicated to a question-and-answer period with the finalists.

For those who are not able to attend in-person, the meetings will be recorded and available on the Board of Trustees website until 10:30 p.m. ET on Monday, March 27. Students who attend the meeting or watch the recording can provide feedback on the finalists via a survey until 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, March 27. Only those students who attended the meeting or watched the recording will have their survey feedback considered. In order for a survey to be considered, the submitter must have attended or watched at least 90% of the meeting. The survey is not a vote, but rather feedback from students on the finalists for the nominating committees to consider in making their recommendations to the president.

Finally, those who attend their respective meeting in-person meeting will be provided with pizza following the event. In addition, there will be a raffle for prizes, including a Whole Foods Market gift card, Duke Dining gift cards, Chipotle gift cards, and two Duke swag bags. Only those students who attended the meeting or watched the recording (at least 90%) and submitted a survey will be eligible for the raffle.

We encourage all students to participate in this important process.

For more information, please visit https://trustees.duke.edu/young-trustee. If you have any questions, please email Secretary Epps at secretary@duke.edu.