Students Chosen for Inaugural Class of Reynolds Fellows

By Robert Polner

Seventeen students from across nine schools have been chosen as recipients of the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship following a competitive selection process. The new program is administered by the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

These inaugural Reynolds Fellows will each receive up to $25,000 for each of two years of full-time study at NYU as of fall 2006. They will also participate in dedicated curricular and co-curricular activities around social entrepreneurship. They hold in common a keen interest and track record in social entrepreneurship, as well as an ability to think globally, and a passion to create and implement pattern-breaking solutions to large-scale, seemingly intractable problems.

Sixty-three judges from across the University and from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors participated in the selection process, which began with 600 applicants for the fellowship and came down to 100 finalists.

Chosen in mid-April, the following are the 2006 Reynolds Fellows: Christopher J. Brown, New York, NY, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; Aura Caldera, New York, NY, College of Dentistry; Aissatou Diallo, Accra, Ghana, Steinhardt School; Rachel Goldbrenner, Brooklyn, NY, School of Law; Pablo A. Halkyard Illanes, Arlington, VA, Leonard N. Stern School of Business; Andrea L. Hollen, Brooklyn, NY, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; Raymond E. Huling III, Providence, RI, Graduate School of Arts and Science; Sara Keenan, Chicago, IL, Steinhardt School; Linda Kay Klein, Madison, WI, Gallatin School of Individualized Study; Brian A. Levine, New York, NY, School of Medicine; Ross P. Meyer, Cincinnati, OH, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; Melchior Ochoa, Oakland, CA, Leonard N. Stern School of Business; Leah C. Pedersen, New York, NY, School of Continuing and Professional Studies; Erica B. Pollack, New York, NY, School of Medicine; Santhosh Ramdoss, Bangalore, India, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; Joseph K. Shin, New York, NY, School of Medicine; and Autumn Terrill, New York, NY, Gallatin School of Individualized Study.