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National Humanities Leadership Council Previous Members
The National Humanities Center has established a National Humanities Leadership Council to help prepare a select group of students with humanities-based leadership skills. Drawn exclusively from nominations advanced by NHC-sponsoring institutions, students accepted to the Council participate in a unique series of interactive experiences with leading humanities scholars and leaders from across the country.
National Humanities Leadership Council 2023–24
Nafiza Akbar
The University of Kansas
Aruna Balasubramanian
Yale University
Madison Bigelow
University of Connecticut
Kennedy Neil Brooks
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Madeline Chiang
University of Notre Dame
Weston Blair Curnow
The University of Kansas
Julie Marie Deacon
Virginia Tech University
Chisom Ezigbo
Duke University
Darya Farah Foroohar
The University of Chicago
Madeline Graf
Macalester College
Peiyao Guo
Stony Brook University
Autumn Hall
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Jonathan David Hazel
Arizona State University
Mia Amor Hernandez
California State University, Fresno
Connor George Kaufmann
University of Notre Dame
Irma Flóra Kiss
University of Pennsylvania
Karen Lau
University of Connecticut
Dylan Tinashe Manguwa
Hamilton College
Aaron Joseph Minzer
Wesleyan University
Lindsay Elizabeth Moynihan
University of Maryland, College Park
Shirly Keyli Yamali Rodas Figueroa
Macalester College
Brandon Reese Sewell, Jr.
University of Memphis
Ross Shapiro
The University of Chicago
Samantha Simon
Bard College
Michael Terrenzi
Brandeis University
Emma Grace Whitlock
Appalachian State University
Xiyun Wu
University of Notre Dame
Justice Yoo
The University of Chicago
Yuyao Zhang
New York University
Miranda Zhong
Duke University
National Humanities Leadership Council 2022–23
Emma M. Akuyeva
Bowdoin College
Laci Burton
Stony Brook University
Giovanni Calabrese
Bowdoin College
Hailey Drapcho
Bucknell University
Irma Fowe
Prairie View A&M University
Toshaani Goel
Davidson College
Owen Gramley
Bowdoin College
Stanley Hamilton
Prairie View A&M University
Elise Thayer Hasseltine
Bucknell University
Anwar Ibrahim
North Carolina Central University
Huihui Jiang
Macalester College
Elena Mindell Kendrick
North Carolina Central University
Emi Kuroda
Soka University of America
Morgan Alise Mayo
William Jewell College
Nada Balsam Merghani
North Carolina Central University
Jennifer Mzobe
Stony Brook University
Mikey Tang
Macalester College
Meghna Vasiraju
Stony Brook University
Benjamin Michael Wardlow
William Jewell College
Ever Whitlock
Trinity University
Charlotte York
Stony Brook University
Irina Znamirowski
Brandeis University
National Humanities Leadership Council 2021–22
Azlynn Brandenburg
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Nilukshi Chen
Wesleyan University
Denee Dapremont
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Madison Doser
University of Arizona
Sebastian Evans
Wesleyan University
Kelly Garrett
Davidson College
Kevin Gomez-Gonzalez
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Agatha Gutierrez
William Jewell College
Elizabeth Hane
Hamilton College
Lucas Joshi
Dartmouth College
Nyaari Kothiya
Hamilton College
Fowota Mortoo
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Darlene Parker
Johnson C. Smith University
Leo Salvatore
Soka University of America
Kyler Schardein
William Jewell College
MacAlasdair Uchimura
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Ana Lucia Verduzco
University of Arizona