Jepson School names 2012 Burrus Fellows

Eighteen students in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies will receive Robert J. Burrus Jr. fellowships this summer for unpaid internships in nonprofit, government or education organizations.

Students will work in organizations in the U.S. and abroad. The fellowships enable students to meet an academic requirement and a complete a 240-hour internship.

The Department of Homeland Security, Richmond Justice Initiative and Tanzania Millennium Hands Foundation are among the places students are interning.

Friends of Robert Burrus created the Robert L. Burrus Jr. Fellowship Program for Developing Leaders in 2004 to honor the former chairman and senior partner of McGuire Woods LLP, who is a member and former rector of the University's board of trustees.

Fellows are:

George Boston
Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club

Nikki Cannavo
Department of Homeland Security

Brian Cherry
Tim Kaine Senate Campaign

Elizabeth Dedman
Judicial District of Tennessee Public Defender’s Office

Lucie Dufour
Harlem RBI

Joey Greener
Campaign of Illinois Representative Robert Dold

Jordan Grubbs
Citizen’s Climate Lobby

Blair Hennessy
Congressman Forbes’s Office

Lindsey Hudson
Tanzania Millennium Hands Foundation

Michelle Huneke
DC Public School’s Urban Education Leaders Program

Hannah Konowitz
Newton, MA Police Department 

Joell Maisano
Richmond Justice Initiative 

Elizabeth McLean
Mather Lifeways Institute on Education and Aging 

Taylor Michaels
Governor’s Fellows Program 

Nicole Olshan
Commonwealth Catholic Charities

John Rivara
Law and Economics Center at GMU School of Law

Josiah Routhier
Strategies to Elevate People 

Julie Yermack
ITS America