board members

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Meet Meg Lawrence MEM/MA’03, Nicholas School Board Member

The Nicholas School alumna and donor reflects on environmental education, faith and philanthropy, and stepping outside of your comfort zone. You delivered the closing comments at the recent Critical Minerals event in DC. How did that go? I was honored to be asked! I really wanted to do justice to […]

Meet Board Member Emeritus Sally Kleberg – Steward of Land, Legacy, and Learning

For Sally Kleberg, Nicholas School Board member emeritus and long-time donor, caring for the land is a birthright, woven through generations of her South Texas family. Part of the fifth generation of the family that founded King Ranch, a 170-year-old family-owned ranch in Texas, Sally was taught early that survival […]

Kira Jacobs MEM’97 reflects on her time at Duke, role as Alumni Council President

We recently had a conversation with Kira Jacobs MEM’97, who was President of the Nicholas School’s Alumni Council for the past two years. She is now on the school’s Board of Visitors. Kira has worked as a water quality scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 1997. In September, […]

Nicholas School Hosts Board of Visitors and Alumni Council Spring Meeting

The Nicholas School’s Board of Visitors (BOV) and Alumni Council came together on Thursday and Friday, April 3-4, to hear about the latest research being conducted by students and faculty. After a welcome from Dean Lori Bennear and BOV Chair Kathryn Hoenig, MEM candidate Emily Siegel shared her research on […]