• The people themselves
  • “Not surprisingly, my favorite thing about DukeNY / DukeNY Women's Forum are the Dukies that comprise it. DukeNY Breakfast Series always featured interesting perspective from some of the best minds in business.”
  • “There is always a Duke connection you can reach out to”
• Basketball
  • “Hoops watches”
  • “Duke bball watch parties”
  • “When I was younger, hoops watches”
• Socials
  • “I love the socials -- smaller groups (Women's Forum) and committees (DAE-NY) are great -- favorite memory is going to a one-off event (Duke in NY), meeting someone new, and running into them at another random Duke event (DAE-NY)”
  • “...the Welcome to the City party last year was also incredible”
  • “Larger DukeNY events enable you to reacquaint yourself with who's in the city that you know (or just recently arrived), while also allowing you to make new connections!”
  • “I like the neighborhood conversations and the social events. It is nice to go somewhere and know that you have something in common with everyone in the room, particularly if you feel like a stranger to most of the city.”
• Career & Neighborhood Conversations, Breakfast Series
  • “Breakfast Series (when back in person) and DEFINITELY Neighborhood Conversations. The Conversations are intimate, unstructured and lend themselves to so easily mingling and meeting new people.”
  • “Neighborhood conversations, tablefor6”
  • “Neighborhood Conversation in BK when I first moved - I lived in Long Island, but I enjoyed going to other places.”
  • “Neighborhood conversations, game at MSG are part of the rhythm of my annual calendar. I like small events where I'll meet people (like neighborhood conversations) and large events where the Duke energy is just fantastic (like MSG). With over 100 events each year, the breadth of what DukeNY offers is staggering. Given we have 16,000 alumni, we're large enough to have NY regional groups of the various affinity groups.”
  • “Career conversations, theatre talk backs, neighborhood conversations…almost any in-person event as it is a great way to reconnect with old friends, meet new ones, network and often learn something new if it is centered around a speaker”
• Women’s Forum events
  • “Women’s forum events are really fun to network at and everyone is friendly! Love that I have reconnected with alums I knew back at duke, made new friends and had the opportunity for some leadership outside of work”
  • “All Women’s Forum programming”