Leadership Prize Recipients

2023 Cohort (graduating 2024)

Nicole McGinty

Major: Public Health Studies
Prize Topic/Project: Putting Knowledge into Action with Girls in Motion-Dream Center, a Physical Activity Intervention for Girls Aged 9-12
Mentors: Amanda Tapler and Elizabeth Bailey

Sydney Barlow

Major: Public Health Studies
Prize Topic/Project: “HIV is a lonely disease.”: Supporting resilience and connections among internationally adopted children living with perinatally-acquired HIV
Mentor: Cynthia Fair

2022 Cohort (graduating 2023)

Danielle Toma-Harrold

Major: Elementary Education
Prize Topic/Project: Toward an Abolitionist Environmental and Place-Based Education: Applying Research to Practice
Mentor: Scott Morrison

2021 Cohort (graduating 2022)

Madeline Attianese

Major: Public Health with the Biological Focus
Prize Topic/Project: The Value of Authenticity in Comprehensive Sex Education: Understanding the Role Authenticity Plays in the Wise Guys Educators Delivery of the Curriculum
Mentor: Amanda Tapler

Gillian Kick

Major: English
Prize Topic/Project: Rewriting Injustice in Alamance County: Fostering Youth Agency and Community Engagement Through Social Justice Writing
Mentor: Heather Lindenman

2020 Cohort (graduating 2021)

Margaret Davis

Major: Special and Elementary Education
Prize Topic/Project: Hospital to School: Transitions for Children with Special Healthcare Needs
Mentor: Bud Warner

Alexandra Hawley

Major: Elementary Education
Prize Topic/Project: Developing and Sustaining a School Garden Collective in Alamance County
Mentor: Scott Morrison

2018 Cohort (graduating 2019)

David Duncan

Major: Psychology
Prize Topic/Project: The Deportation Threat and Its Health Impact on Hispanic Immigrant College Students
Mentor: Carmen Monico

Sarra Eddahiri

Major: Public Health Studies
Prize Topic/Project: Increasing Mental Health Awareness among College-Age Students in Post-Revolution Tunisia: A Social Intervention
Mentor: Katherine Johnson

Courtney Kobos

Major: English
Prize Topic/Project: Looking Beyond the Classroom: Responding to Educator Needs in Linguistically Diverse Schools
Mentor: Jennifer Eidum

2017 Cohort (graduating 2018)

Perry Elyaderani

Major: Journalism
Prize Topic/Project: Responding to Male Depression on College Campuses
Mentor: Alexis Franzese

Surya Shahi

Major: Theatre Arts in Acting
Prize Topic/Project: Making higher education accessible to students in Humla, Nepal through Sapura Dream Foundation, a non-profit organization that acts as a platform for marginalized students to gain access to resources via sponsorship, grants, donors, fundraising, mentorship and advocacy.
Mentors: Jason Aryeh, Mussa Idris

Monique Swirsky

Major: Environmental Studies
Prize Topic/Project: Creating an Accepting and Empowering Environment for LGBTQ Students at Elon University in the Wake of House Bill 2
Mentor: Rodney Parks

2016 Cohort (graduating 2017)

Josephine Gardner

Major: Public Health Studies
Prize Topic/Project: Improving Aid Effectiveness to Africa: A Culturally- informed, Skills-based Non-Governmental Organization to Empower Homeless Women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Mentors: Heidi Frontani, Mussa Idris

Rebecca Nipper

Major: Drama & Theatre Studies
Prize Topic/Project: Mentorship as A Means of Female Empowerment: A Resolution to Lessen Gender Inequality on College Campuses
Mentors: Kirstin Ringelberg, Stephen Bloch-Schulman

2015 Cohort (graduating 2016)

Jenna Nelson

Major: Public Health Studies
Prize Topic/Project: Facilitating Sexual and Reproductive Health Discussions between Health Care Providers and Adolescents
Mentor: Cynthia Fair

Tony Weaver

Major: Theatre Arts in Acting
Prize Topic/Project: Producing Diversity: Transforming the Image of African Americans in Television Programming
Mentor: Naeemah Clark

Rachel Weeks

Major: English
Prize Topic/Project: Active Bystander Intervention as a Means of Reducing Sexual Assault on Campus
Mentor: Paula Patch