1. Lucia
T.
Rodriguez
206
North
Duke
Street,
Apt.
000

Durham,
NC
24700
(999)
333-­‐4444

lucia.rodriguez@duke.edu
EDUCATION
Duke
University,
Durham,
NC
May
2011
Political
Science
Major,
Economics
Minor,
Ethics
Certificate
GPA:
3.367
Deans’
List
(Spring
2009)
WRITING
&
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE
Duke
Women’s
Mentoring
Network,
Co-­Founder,
Durham,
NC
June
2007
–
Present
• Researched
mentoring
models,
developed
program
design,
wrote
detailed
memo
and
presented
proposal
to
senior
University
administrators
• Negotiated
$12,000
annual
funding
from
Division
of
Student
Affairs;
secured
Women’s
Center
partnership
Duke
University
Chronicle,
Editorial
Board
Member,
Durham,
NC
Aug
2008
–
Present
• Contribute
opinions
to
&
regularly
write
the
daily
editorial
in
Duke’s
independent
student
newspaper
International
Institute
for
Conflict
Prevention
and
Resolution,
Intern,
New
York,
NY
June
–
Aug
2009
• Published
articles
on
CPR
website
• Interviewed
party
counsel
for
evaluations
of
concluded
meditation
and
arbitration
proceedings
researched
and
complied
exhaustive
content
for
new
webpage
profiling
ADR
in
Africa
Hague
Institute
for
the
Internationalization
of
Law,
Intern,
The
Hague,
Netherlands
May
–
Aug
2008
• Designed
and
completed
independent
research
project
to
identify
and
list
all
references
to
court
decisions
from
foreign
jurisdictions
in
U.S.
Supreme
Court
decisions
in
past
20
years.
Results
included
in
conference
materials
in
annual
conference
on
“The
Changing
Role
of
Highest
Courts
in
an
Internationalizing
World”
• Contributed
to
collective
effort
to
improve
and
finalize
substantive
texts
which
framed
conference
discourse
• Regularly
edited
and
proofread
papers
and
speeches
produced
by
HiiL
affiliates
• Drafted
conference
correspondence
and
promotional
materials
• Rapporteur
and
participated
at
HiiL’s
2008
annual
conference,
HAC’s
2008
annual
conference,
HiiL
seminars
WISER
(Women’s
Institute
For
Secondary
Education
Research)
Microfinance
/
Economics
Research
Team,
Muhuru
Bay,
Kenya;
Durham,
NC
May
–
Dec
2007
• Designed
56-­‐question
survey
on
household
economic
habits,
a
poverty
and
needs-­‐assessment
tool
as
baseline
economic
data
for
Muhuru
Bay
Community
(IRB
approved)
• Administered
survey
independently
to
200
households,
biking
across
Muhuru
Bay
region
with
translator
Fowler,
Measle
and
Bell,
LLP,
Intern,
Lexington,
KY
Sept
–
Oct
2005
• Shadowed
bankruptcy
attorneys,
district
court
judge,
mediator
EXTRACURRICULAR
ACTIVITIES
Duke
University
Board
of
Trustee,
Undergraduate
Affairs
Committee,
Ex-­Officio
Member
Aug
2007
–
Present
• Contribute
as
full
voting
committee
member
in
quarterly
meetings
• Research
and
interview
students
on
pertinent
issues
beforehand
to
present
a
nuanced,
informed
perspective
Duke
Student
Government,
Vice
President
of
Student
Affairs,
Durham,
NC
May
2007
–
2008
• Negotiated
multiple
university
fund
allocations
for
campus
projects;
$100,000
ZipCars
program
design
and
proposal,
and
presented
proposal
to
senior
University
administrators
• Managed
eleven-­‐member
DSG
Standing
Committee
on
Student
Affairs
to
ensure
each
had
a
substantive
project
and
was
making
progress
towards
completing
it
• Presented
updates
and
power-­‐point
reports
regularly
to
DSG
General
Assembly
detailing
lobbying
efforts
President’s
Council
on
Woman,
Undergraduate
Member,
Durham,
NC
Aug
2007
–
2008
• Selected
as
undergraduate
representative
to
advisory
council
to
University
President
regarding
gender
issues
SCHOLASTIC
HONORS
Baldwin
Scholars
Program,
Baldwin
Scholar,
Durham,
NC
Oct
2006
–
Present
• Selected
as
on
of
the
18
women
from
Class
of
2010
for
Duke
University’s
only
women’s
leadership
program
Advanced
Research
Independent
Study,
Durham,
NC
Aug
–
Dec
2008
• Completing
quantitative
(using
STATA)
and
qualitative
analysis
of
original
dataset
on
judicial
recourse
to
foreign
law
in
73
U.S.
Supreme
Court
decisions
over
the
past
20
years
Eruditio
–
Duke
University’s
undergraduate
Humanities
Journal,
Durham,
NC
Spring
2007
• Published
research
paper
entitled:
“Globalizing
Jurisprudence:
The
Use
of
Foreign
Authority
in
Domestic
Constitutional
Interpretation”