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Pictured from left, along with their home town,University and the Delta institution that they are working for this summer are: Yesenia Pedro Vicente of Morganton, N.C., UNC, St. Gabriel’s Mercy Center in Mound Bayou; Antonio Jackson of Greensboro, N.C., UNC, St. Gabriel’s Mercy Center; Ivanna Gonzales of Miami, Fla., UNC, Bolivar County Community Action Emergency Shelter; Victoria Wilmarth of Andover, Mass., Duke, Delta Center for Culture and Learning; Claire Sorrenson of Auckland, New Zeland, Duke, Greenville Renaissance Scholars; Jacob Lerner of Washington D.C., UNC, Sunflower County Freedom Project; Jeremy Knight of Atlanta, Ga., UNC, Greenville Renaissance Scholars; Jagir Patel of Boynton Beach, Fla., UNC, Sunflower County Freedom Project; Jessica Broadus of Marietta, Ga., UNC, Delta Center for Culture and Learning; Alexis Wallace of Phoenix, Ariz., Duke, Sunflower County Freedom Project; and Tom Atwood of Woodstock, Conn., Duke, St. Gabriel’s Mercy Center.
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Each summer for the past five years, the Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning, has hosted Robertson Scholars who come from either Duke or the University of North Carolina (UNC). The scholars received full tuition and numerous academic perks.
They can choose among four locations for summer internships: Atlanta, New Orleans, the Mississippi Delta, and Appalachian Kentucky. The Delta is consistently one of the favored locations, and this year, it was chosen by 11 Robertson Scholars. As part of their introduction to the region, the Delta Center takes them on various heritage tours, and they recently visited Clarksdale.
