Assistant to the Dean
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Ava West, former chapter president of Kappa Delta Sorority, graduated Magna cum Laude from Pace University in 2010 with a bachelor of arts in communication studies and a minor in psychology. In 2013, she graduated as a juris doctor from the Law School at Campbell University. After working as a case manager in a criminal defense law firm for two years, she realized that a legal career is not the right fit for her. She joined the Duke Chapel in July 2015.
Ava grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and went to college in New York City. She moved to North Carolina in 2010, and now lives in Durham with her husband, Alden, their dog, Captain, and their twins, Owen and Naomi, born in July 2017.