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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.
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 Fellow Retreat. 

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

2026-2027 Fellows

Divinity

Tess Tumarkin
Johnathan Riley
Brennan Perkins

Law School

Jennifer Ngo
Gavin Olson
Catherine Tamarelli

Owen (Business Management)

Jimmy Nguyen
Claire Brewer
Miyu Hase

Peabody College

Megan Guinter
Erika Yamaguchi
Alexis Aronin
Rachel Romano

Medicine

Maddie Fowler
Sharon Fernandez
Daniel Larson

Nursing

Teris Taylor
Erin Sundook
Darin Bodin

Engineering 

Maggie Orlova
Trystan Roberts
Vittoria Riedling

Past Fellows