Mindy Wu and Scott Burstein
Co-Presidents, Duke Outing Club
The Basics
Company Name: Duke Outing Club
Location: Durham, NC
Founded: N/A
Full-Time Employees: 150+ Duke student members
Products: N/A
Social: Instagram // Website
Claim to Fame: We hold 2-3 trips every weekend throughout the entire school year, along with bigger trips for Fall and Spring Break, including activities like backpacking, canoeing, and rock climbing!
The Culture
The best thing about working at duke outing club is:
the excitement of meeting new Duke community members on every trip and bonding through a shared love of the outdoors.
When we’re not working, we’re:
eating granola bars, identifying birds and insects.
What we’re reading:
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Wild, anything by Jack Kerouac
What we’re listening to/Watching on Netflix:
Cage the Elephant, The Beatles, Fleet Foxes
If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:
What Could Go Wrong??
Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:
as a school community of over 150 members, we want to create equal accessibility to outdoor opportunities.
Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:
the Outing Club will not only serve as a space for Duke students to learn from each other’s unique experiences in the common space of the outdoors, but to also give back to the larger Durham, NC community and continue to educate ourselves on what it means to be an ally.