Trevor Brownlow

Trevor Brownlow (born July 30, 1993) is a social entrepreneur and radio personality, currently studying at Duke University. In September 2012, Brownlow was selected by Opportunity Nation to serve as an Opportunity Scholar, one of one hundred students nationwide representing a bi-partisan coalition of over 250 community organizations with a combined outreach of more than 100 million Americans. He is an advocate for restoring economic and educational opportunities among young adults.
Early life and education
Brownlow was born in Morehead City, North Carolina, and is a lifelong resident of Emerald Isle, an island town in the state’s southern Outer Banks region. He attended Croatan High School and graduated as the valedictorian of the Class of 2011. Brownlow served as President of the Beta Club, Interact Club, and Science Olympiad team and was a weekly volunteer at the Broad Street Clinic in Morehead City. Brownlow founded the Helping Heart Project, a community-funded initiative that has raised over $5,000 to provide free blood pressure monitors for the clinic’s patients diagnosed with hypertension.
From 2009 to 2011, Brownlow served as the lead panelist for YouthPoints, a weekly talk radio show hosted by Lockwood Phillips of The Talk Station WTKF 107.1, the first FM talk radio station in North Carolina. He is currently a weekly commentator on ViewPoints, a socio-political talk show aired by The Talk Station.
During the summers, Brownlow has worked at a local surf and watersports shop and was the sole proprietor of a lawn services business.
Brownlow studied for one year in Honors Carolina at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before taking an interim year for international volunteer work. In May 2013, he was admitted as a transfer student to Duke University.
Social entrepreneurship and volunteerism
In November 2011, Brownlow founded the Student United Way of UNC-Chapel Hill, a campus chapter advancing the mission of United Way Worldwide, and volunteered each week as a mathematics tutor at the Durham Rescue Mission, helping homeless men earn their GEDs. Brownlow also served on the [http://innovate.unc.edu/ic_resource/chancellors-student-innovation-team/#.UbD49JX3CWc Chancellor’s Student Innovation Team], a group leading the university’s $125 million fundraising initiative, planning interdisciplinary campus events, and launching a crowd-funding platform for student-led projects and initiatives. In February 2012, Brownlow hosted the “1.4 Billion Reasons” tour on campus to promote sustainable development and foreign aid transparency.
From mid-November 2012 to early January 2013, Brownlow lived and worked in rural southwestern Uganda, where he started an organic coffee cooperative and demonstration farm to educate and connect coffee growers in the region. From mid-March to mid-May 2013, he traveled to the central highlands of Kenya to teach an “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” seminar at the Daraja Academy, a free secondary boarding school for gifted girls.
Recognition
Brownlow is the recipient of the American Legion School Award and Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award. He is also recognized in 2011 as a featured student in the WITN-TV Best of the Class program.
Personal life
Brownlow is a student pilot, scuba diver, sailor, boater, and sport fisherman.

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