
Presentation during the 2025 Cal Turner Luncheon.
Applications for the 26-27 academic year will be released in January 2026.
Over the past 15 years, the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership has invited students, from Vanderbilt's professional schools of law, divinity, education, business management, nursing, and medicine to participate in project-based teams focused on interprofessional and community engagement around socio-moral concerns. Fellowship cohorts have ranged in size and style of project engagement. This year, 21 fellows meet twice a month over lunch to discuss and reflect upon moral leadership, moral values, moral power, and moral conflict. They will choose interprofessional small group moral inquiry projects for the spring term.
As the main program of the CTPML, the goal of the student fellowship is working with fellows to deepen their moral range and sense of social responsibility/possibility through providing spaces for grounded idealism and moral fellowship.
Presentation during the 2025 Cal Turner Luncheon.
Presentations from 2025:
Balancing Integrity and Perception: Conscientiousness and Skepticism across the Professions
The Cost of Coming Home: Reentry and the Burden of Perfection
Admissions Testing: Strategies, Perspectives, and Reflection
Reinventing a Roof: Gentrification and Housing Crisis in Nashville
Implications of AI Integration in Mental Health
Presentations from 2024:
Moral Resiliency in the Professions
Welcoming (Im)migrant Children to Middle Tennessee
Evolution of Feminism and Gender Equity
Promoting and Sustaining Equity
Presentations from 2023:
Hope in the Margins:Moral Leadership within the Prison System
Exploring the Moral Implications of Postpartum Depression: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Niambi McLaurin
M. Hunter Stanfield
Xandria Flores
Victor Castagno
Jordan Teshima
Sarah Austin
Rachel Wood
Shane Jafar
Mansi Chouskey
Peabody College (human and community development)
Sisilia Tunga
Melody Suite
Syed Muhammad Husain Zaidi
Devanshi Bhangle
Lily Campbell Lewis
James Bathon
Chimdindu Peace Ugwanyi
Bemnet Argaw
Alexis von der Lieth
Anas Reda
Bruno Hidalgo Monroy Lerma
Finny Green
Katie Hammer
Demarius Brinkley
Ashley Good
Mark Mehochko
Ansley McDurmon
Owen Graduate School of Management
Megan Manno
Abhishek Singh
Abdul-fatai Adetula
Andre Moneda
Davina Le
Stella Mainali
Joy Justice
Lance Johnson
Lilly He
Evana Yates
Olivia Hobbs
Hana Tamura