March 2025
Debbie Witchey PPS'86 - Became President & CEO of the Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness in October 2024.
Richard Schwartz PPS'75 - was introduced on the floor of the House in the NC General Assembly on Jan. 29, 2025, as the House commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. Schwartz has been Vice-Chair of the NC Council on the Holocaust for over 25 years and wrote the legislation passed by the General Assembly to mandate and implement Holocaust education in North Carolina's public schools.
Josh Margolis PPS'81 - Over the past year Josh hit a milestone. Using CarbonSim Josh (PPS, 81) trained thousands of global stakeholders and students — including Duke students — in the principles of carbon portfolio management and how they can use well-designed carbon markets to deliver superior environmental, economic, and social results. While at the Environmental Defense Fund — and since leaving EDF — Josh led the development and deployment of CarbonSim which facilitates experiential learning and is highly interactive, multilingual, AI-assisted, an and multiplayer. At the invitation of Duke’s Jackson Ewing, Dan Vermeer, and Jessica Doyle, Josh has run carbon market simulation exercises for Univ 102 Lets Talk About Climate Change, Nicholas, and Fuqua students along with San Francisco Bay Area alums. More about one such exercise can be found here. Josh has also lectured at Duke’s Kunshan’s campus and run carbon market simulations — both in person and virtual — in India, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Japan, Australia, Colombia, Brazilian, Mexico, the US, Canada, and Europe. Josh lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.