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Duke’s Office of University Scholars and Fellows and Delta Gamma are proud to present the 2025 Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics with American journalist and author Evy Poumpouras.
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“Bulletproof Strategies for Leading Fearlessly”
with Evy Poumpouras
Tuesday, September 16
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Reynolds Theatre
Moderator:
Jennifer Siegel, PhD
Bruce R. Kuniholm Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy
More information on Professor Siegel
Open to the Duke community.
Contact:
Karen Weber, Ed.D.
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About Evy Poumpouras:
Evy Poumpouras is the author of the best-selling book Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, Live Fearlessly.
For more than 12 years, Poumpouras served as a Secret Service special agent. She was a member of the Presidential Protective Division for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and protected Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush.
Today, she is a widely recognized multimedia journalist, host, and producer. She was the co-host of Bravo TV’s competition series Spy Games and is NBC’s Law Enforcement Analyst where she covers breaking national security and crime news stories for NBC News, Today Show, MSNBC, News Now, and Dateline. Her podcasts and online talks have garnered over 45 million views.
Poumpouras received the Presidential Citation and Valor Award for her acts of heroism at the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
About the Lecture: Bulletproof Strategies for Leading Fearlessly
As someone who broke glass ceilings in a male-dominated field, former Secret Service special agent Evy Poumpouras demonstrates how anyone can move beyond self-doubt to a mindset of strength and resilience. In this talk, she shares valuable methods for harnessing solution-based thinking at work and every day and filtering out the noise to lead and problem solve effectively. Poumpouras stresses how important it is for leaders to master emotional intelligence, enhance mental fortitude, and break through diminishing thought patterns and self-doubt, while providing audience members powerful tools to add to their arsenal as they look to lead themselves and their people to conquering short- and long-term challenges.
The Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics
The Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics was established more than 30 years ago to provide an opportunity on college campuses to openly discuss the ideas of values and ethics. The Lectureship at Duke was endowed in 1994 with a focus on bringing speakers to campus who had the capacity to inspire such traits and honesty, ethical conduct and individual responsibility. The Delta Gamma Lectureship in Values and Ethics at Duke is one of only 21 lectureships across the country.
Past Lectureship speakers at Duke include Maya Angelou, Melissa Harris Perry, Reggie Love, Grant Hill, Wendy Davis, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Margot Lee Shetterly, Chanel Miller, Jon Scheyer and Kara Lawson, and Aly Raisman.