Rendon Foy Educates Local Community

Romance Studies graduate student Rendon Foy has already formed close ties with the Durham community. Foy serves as a volunteer for the Durham Literacy Center, teaching students in the earliest ESOL levels.

As a second-year graduate student, Foy is currently teaching elementary Spanish at Duke and she has been able to use the pedagogy learned in the Romance Studies program at Duke as well as her own experiences learning foreign languages to connect with the students there. This is one of several volunteer projects Foy has participated in since coming to Duke and other members of the community are already noting her impact. Many of the students at the Durham Literacy Center are refugees and immigrants and Foy’s work there adds to other current volunteer efforts by several of our professors and undergraduate students.

The Romance Studies is thrilled to have so many members of our department engaged in promoting multi-lingual communication and literacy in the community.