Join the Contemplative Sciences Center for the fourth annual Citizen Leader Fellows final presentations featuring the University's international, athletic, and transfer student communities on Friday, April 25, 2025. 

The Citizen Leaders Fellowship—a partnership with the Contemplative Sciences Center, the International Studies Office, UVA Athletics, and Student Affairs—offers students a year-long leadership opportunity to gain skills needed to flourish during their time at UVA and after graduation.

Eligible UVA students identify a specific, pressing challenge to the well-being 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.

The fellowship highlights the concept of flourishing to help students envision the forms of engagement they would like to see on Grounds to enhance the well-being of their student community, or some subset within it. 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.

This event is open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

To attend virtually, please use the following webinar link: https://virginia.zoom.us/j/99692877889?pwd=NcMjlWQrtYlTA3ZbSE2uyp5PJm7e10.1

A digital program for this event can be found here: 2025 Citizen Leader Fellows Final Presentation Program