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Student Young tutors incarcerated students, co-founded reentry fund to help formerly incarcerated make fresh start
April 14, 2021 SHARE Kennedy Young is among 13 members of the Washington University community who will receive a Virgil Ethic of Service Award during a virtual ceremony at 6 p.m. April 21. Young is a co-founder of the Reentry Collective, which provides direct cash assistance to formerly incarcerated people.
Kennedy Young, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis, used to believe that only bad people went to jail.
“I didn’t understand the prison system and how it disproportionately impacts poor folks and people of color,” said Kennedy, who grew up in Little Rock, Ark.
Senior Kiara Gilbert awarded Marshall Scholarship for graduate study in the UK
Denise Valenti, Office of Communications
Dec. 10, 2020 9 a.m.
Kiara Gilbert
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Princeton senior Kiara “KiKi” Gilbert has been named a 2021 Marshall Scholar. The Marshall Scholarship seeks to promote strong relations between the United Kingdom and the United States by offering intellectually distinguished young Americans the opportunity to develop their abilities as future leaders. The scholarship covers the cost of two years of graduate study in the UK at a university of the recipient’s choice.
Gilbert, a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, is one of 46 awardees for 2021. An African American studies concentrator who is completing a certificate in humanistic studies, Gilbert will pursue an MPhil in criticism and culture at the University of Cambridge and an MPhil in political thought and intellectual theory at SOAS University of London.