Jepson School of Leadership Studies

Jepson School of Leadership Studies associate professors Thad Williamson and Julian Hayter; Melody C. Barnes, Co-Director for Policy and Public Affairs, Democracy Initiative, Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor and a Professor of Practice, Miller Center of Public Affairs, and Distinguished Fellow, School of Law, University of Virginia; and Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities...

Leadership studies associate professor Julian Maxwell Hayter and Jepson School 2020-21 Leader-in-Residence Rodney Robinson sit down for a conversation on the need to ramp up economic and cultural equity in public education. Hayter, a Richmond Public Schools parent, and Robinson, the 2019 National Teacher of the Year and Richmond Public Schools senior policy advisor, discuss how focusing on equity...

The Gary L. McDowell Institute at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies presents Yuval Levin for a discussion on "A Time to Build." The author of "A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream," is Director, Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies, Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy and Ed...

The Department of Psychology and the Jepson School of Leadership Studies present Dr. Sarah Gaither for a discussion on “Multiple Identities = Multiple Sources of Threat & Belonging.” We all have multiple identities—race, gender, age, sexual orientation, occupation, etc. However, social scientific research has traditionally focused on the effects stemming from one identity (i.e., race OR gender). P...

The Marshall Center's 2020 Webinar on Frederick Douglass comes to a close with a discussion between David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies at Yale University, and Edward L. Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus at the University of Richmond. Sept. 25, 2020

A panel of scholars discuss "The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass" as part of the Marshall Center 2020 Webinar on Frederick Douglass. Dan Schillinger, Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in the Humanities at Yale University, chairs and moderates the discussion; Nick Buccola, Elizabeth & Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science and Founding Director, Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Right...

A panel of scholars discuss "Statesmanship in Frederick Douglass's Life and Thought" as part of the Marshall Center 2020 Webinar on Frederick Douglass. Julian Maxwell Hayter, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, chairs and moderates the discussion; Nolan Bennett, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, presents "The Pol...

A panel of scholars discuss "Frederick Douglass's America--And Ours," as part of the Marshall Center 2020 Webinar on Frederick Douglass. Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities at Wake Forest University, chairs and moderates the discussion; Leigh Fought, Associate Professor of History at Le Moyne College, presents Women in the World of Frederick Douglass; James Oakes, Distingui...

David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Sterling Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies; and Director, The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, presented the keynote address, "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom," at the Marshall Center 2020 Webinar on Frederick Douglass. Sept. 24, 2020

Jepson School of Leadership Studies alumni Raegan Williams Morris, '99, Greg Efthimiou, '99, and Ken Anderson, '17, L'20, share strategies for leading during a crisis in a discussion moderated by Dean Sandra J. Peart. Aug. 31, 2020

Jepson School of Leadership Studies 2020-21 Leader-in-Residence Rodney Robinson presents "From Racism to Justice: What Our Children Deserve." Robinson, a 20-year teaching veteran and passionate advocate of underprivileged and underrepresented students, was named the 2019 National Teacher of the Year. In his current role as senior advisor for Richmond Public Schools, he creates programming to recru...

Jepson student Ben Weinstein, ’20, interviews 2019-20 Jepson Leadership Forum speaker Virginia Eubanks prior to her presentation, "Algorithms, Austerity, and Inequality." February 13, 2020

The Jepson Leadership Forum presents Virginia Eubanks, Associate professor of political science at the University at Albany - State University of New York, for a presentation on "Algorithms, Austerity, and Inequality." Feb. 13, 2020

The Marshall Center Lecture Series presents Teresa M. Bejan, Associate Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of Oriel College, University of Oxford, for a presentation on "Tolerance and Civility." Feb. 6, 2020

Jepson student Aaron Gano, ’20, interviews 2019-20 Jepson Leadership Forum speaker Yasha Levine prior to his presentation, "The Internet as a Weapon." November 19, 2019

The 2019-20 Jepson Leadership Forum, Digital Dystopias: Truth and Representation in the Internet Age, presents Yasha Levine, Russian-American investigative journalist and author, for a discussion on "The Internet as a Weapon.” Nov. 19, 2019

The Jepson School of Leadership Studies' Marshall Center Lecture Series presents Sean Theriault, University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin, for the discussion "Contempt in Congress: The Decline of Statesmanship in the U.S. Senate." Nov. 8, 2019

The Jepson School of Leadership Studies' Marshall Center Lecture Series presents Raymond O. Arsenault, John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, for a discussion on "Arthur Ashe: Courage and Civility." Oct. 10, 2019

Jepson student Sara Milano, ’20, interviews 2019-20 Jepson Leadership Forum speaker Derek Thompson prior to his presentation, "Economics and Influence in Digital Spaces." October 7, 2019

Jepson School of Leadership Studies student Mehreen Usman, ’20, interviews 2019-20 Jepson Leadership Forum speaker Katie Hafner, journalist, author, and frequent contributor to The New York Times, prior to her presentation, "The Origins of the Internet" September 17, 2019

The 2019-20 Jepson Leadership Forum, Digital Dystopias: Truth and Representation in the Internet Age, presents Katie Hafner, journalist, frequent contributor to The New York Times, and author, for a discussion on "The Origins of the Internet.” Sept. 17, 2019

The Jepson School of Leadership Studies' Marshall Center Lecture Series presents Joshua B. Kaplan, Associate Professional Specialist and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, for a discussion on electoral college reform. Sept. 11, 2019

The Jepson School of Leadership Studies Marshall Center Lecture Series presents Lynn Uzzell, lecturer at the University of Richmond and the University of Virginia, for a presentation on "James Madison as Father of the Constitution"? May 16, 2019

Jepson School of Leadership Studies student India Henderson, ’21, interviews Jepson Leadership Forum speaker Melody Barnes, former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and Principal and Co-Founder of MB² Solutions LLC, a domestic policy strategy and impact development firm, prior to her presentation, "Can We Make Our Democracy Work?" April 10, 2019

The Jepson Leadership Forum presents Melody Barnes, former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, principal and co-founder of MB2 Solutions, a domestic policy strategy and impact development firm, for a discussion on "Can We Make Our Democracy Work?" April 10, 2019