Charleston Fellows Alumni
Transformational leadership takes many forms.
There is no standard roadmap to success for a Charleston Fellow. Alumni regularly go on to become leaders in fields and communities that matter to them, taking the tools they forged at CofC and administering them in a variety of meaningful ways.
To give you a snapshot, program alumni are…
Impacting their Communities
- Fusing international law with activism in support of human rights
- Giving a voice to displaced communities
- Trailblazing new paths in the legal profession
- Humanizing the migrant experience in Mexico and the U.S.
- Showcasing the music of LGBTQ+ artists of color
Leaders in the Workforce
JP Morgan Chase / Lending Tree / Boeing / Teach for America / Citi / Blackbaud / Hertz / International Rescue Committee / United States District Court, Central District of California / Accenture / The Juilliard School / Syria Direct independent news agency / TripAdvisor / International Federation of Social Workers / Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation / PwC / Pinterest / US District Court for Eastern District of Louisiana / Ally Financial / University of Michigan Department of Emergency Medicine / Museum of Modern Art / Morningstar / Emory University School of Medicine / Charleston Symphony Orchestra / Booz Allen Hamilton / United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit / Brown University Medical Center / NOAA / Harvard Medical School / Brigham & Women Hospital / Vanguard / Capgemini
Attending Innovative Graduate Programs
MA in Social Work, UNC-Chapel Hill / MA in Historic Preservation, Penn / JD, Yale / PhD in Classical Studies, Duke / MA in Arts and Cultural Management, Queen Margaret University (Scotland) / MD, Northwestern / MA in International Studies, Johns Hopkins / MA in Visual Arts Administration, NYU / JD, Michigan / JD, UCLA / PhD Neuroscience, Emory / MA in Global Health, King’s College London / PhD in Neuroscience, Columbia / JD/PhD in Economics, Vanderbilt / PhD in Computer Science, Georgia Tech / MA in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices, CalArts / MD-PhD, MUSC / MA in Conflict Resolution, Tel Aviv University / PhD in Bioinformatics, Harvard / MD-PhD, UVA / Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine, UC-Davis
Regularly Recognized with Prestiguous Awards
- 9 Goldwater Scholars
- 9 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants
- 7 Rotary Ambassadorial Global grants
- 6 Critical Language Scholars
- 4 Fulbright Summer Institute invitees
- 4 National Science Foundation fellowships
- 3 NOAA Hollings scholars
- 2 Harvard Public Policy Leadership Conference invitees
- 1 Gates Millenial Scholar
- 1 DAAD Undergraduate Scholar
- 1 Humanity in Action Fellow
- 1 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow