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The final presentations of the 2025-2026 Citizen Leaders Fellows are the culmination of a year-long fellowship for a select group of UVA international students, transfer students, and student athletes who designed social impact projects to promote student flourishing.

Eligible UVA students identify a specific, pressing challenge to the wellbeing or flourishing of their peers or larger communities and spend their fellowship year designing and implementing programs to overcome those challenges with evidence-based tools. 

Fellows emerge with their own style of citizen leadership, enabling them to lead engaged and values-driven lives, while making it possible for others to do the same.

Through a series of reflective activities, direct mentorship, and academic engagement, Fellows learn a combination of contemplative and ethnographic methods, dispositions, and practices to create change within themselves and the communities they care about.

Citizen Leaders Fellows is a partnership among the Contemplative Sciences Center, the International Studies Office, UVA Athletics, and Commonwealth Partnerships.

Learn about CLF and this year's cohort.