ROOMMATES Now sharing a house near East Campus with five other students, the Texans shared a tent this summer during DukeEngage in Turkey. They volunteered at DEKAMER, an organization that rehabilitates sea turtles and focuses on conservation.
Gaby Benitez + Taylor Johnson + Aoife Gaby’s from Austin,
Texas, is a senior, and studies biology and environmental sciences and policy, with a marine science conservation leadership certificate.
Interview by Madeline Taylor Photo by Les Todd
Yin and yang: Gaby likes it
hot, Taylor likes it cold. Gaby loves the sunshine, Taylor loves the rain. Gaby is a mediator, Taylor is type A. Gaby doesn’t like carbs, and Taylor doesn’t like vegetables. In Turkey, Gaby would eat Taylor’s vegetables, and Taylor would take Gay’s rice or carb. “It was symbiotic in that way,” says Taylor. At their house, they have potlucks and invite twenty to thirty friends.
Campus involvement:
They both DJ at the WXDU; Gaby’s on-air name is La Sirena (“The Mermaid” in Spanish), Taylor’s on-air name is ChEYEnne, her middle name. They both work at the East Campus Coffeehouse, and Gaby is president of the Food for Thought club, which focuses on food at Duke and sustainable eating.
Taylor’s
from San Antonio, Texas, is a senior, and studies comparative area studies with a concentration on the region of Europe and Turkey, is a history minor, and maybe, a women’s studies minor.
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