Cal Turner Program Student Fellowship

This is an image of Cal Turner Jr. speaking to members of the CTP Program in the VDS Reading Room.

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.

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Presentation during the 2025 Cal Turner Luncheon. 

Presentations from 2025: 

Balancing Integrity and Perception: Conscientiousness and Skepticism across the Professions 

This is the poster for the Balancing Integrity project.

The Cost of Coming Home: Reentry and the Burden of Perfection

This is the poster for the Balancing Integrity project.

Admissions Testing: Strategies, Perspectives, and Reflection

This is the poster for the Balancing Integrity project.

Reinventing a Roof: Gentrification and Housing Crisis in Nashville

This is the poster for the Balancing Integrity project.

Implications of AI Integration in Mental Health

This is the poster for the Balancing Integrity project.

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

Authentic Leadership 

Exploring the Moral Implications of Postpartum Depression: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Current Fellows

2025-2026 Fellows

Divinity

Niambi McLaurin
M. Hunter Stanfield
Xandria Flores

Law School

Victor Castagno
Jordan Teshima
Sarah Austin

Owen (Business Management)

Rachel Wood
Shane Jafar
Mansi Chouskey

Peabody College (human and community development)

Sisilia Tunga
Melody Suite
Syed Muhammad Husain Zaidi

Medicine

Devanshi Bhangle
Lily Campbell Lewis
James Bathon 
Chimdindu Peace Ugwanyi 

Nursing

Bemnet Argaw
Alexis von der Lieth

Engineering 

Anas Reda 
Bruno Hidalgo Monroy Lerma

Past Fellows

2024-2025 Fellows

Divinity

Finny Green
Katie Hammer
Demarius Brinkley

Law School

Ashley Good
Mark Mehochko
Ansley McDurmon

Owen Graduate School of Management

Megan Manno
Abhishek Singh
Abdul-fatai Adetula

Peabody College 

Andre Moneda
Davina Le
Stella Mainali 

School of Medicine

Joy Justice 
Lance Johnson
Lilly He 

School of Nursing

Evana Yates 
Olivia Hobbs
Hana Tamura

2023-2024 Fellows

 

2022-2023 Fellows

2021-2022 Fellows

2020-2021 Fellows

2019-2020 Fellows

2018-2019 Fellows

2017-2018 Fellows

2016-2017 Fellows

2015-2016 Fellows

2014-2015 Fellows

2013-2014 Fellows

2011-2012 Fellows

2010-2011 Fellows

2009-2010 Fellows

2008-2009 Fellows