Nuala Pell Leadership Program Announces Fellows Selected for 2024-2025 Academic Year

NEWPORT, RI–Eleven juniors and seniors at Salve Regina University have been selected as fellows for the Nuala Pell Leadership Program for the 2024-2025 academic year. Named in honor of the late Nuala Pell, wife of Sen. Claiborne Pell and an avid supporter of public service, the program is made up of a select number of diverse, high-achieving student fellows at Salve Regina. The program facilitates leadership development with an emphasis on public service through monthly meetings where students engage with accomplished leaders in the public sector and explore leadership theory, ethics and the evolution of public issues. The fellowship year culminates with a visit to Washington D.C. where the leadership fellows meet with both public and private-sector leaders.

The 2024-2025 cohort of Nuala Pell Leadership Program fellows includes:

● Alex Colon ‘25, political science major, Italian studies and sociology and
anthropology minors, Brielle, N.J.
● Emma Liarikos ‘25, English communication. major, political science and marketing minors,
Fairhaven, Mass.
● Leah Spengler ‘26, political science and English comms majors, history minor,
Pepperell, Mass.
● Libby Gilbert ‘26, history major, religious and theological studies minor, Grand
Rapids, Mich.
● Maeve Newton ‘25, cultural and historic preservation major, film studies and global
studies minors, Chicago, Ill.
● Nyla White 26’, political science major, Spanish and global studies minors, Chicago,
Ill.
● Roona Farahi 25’, criminal justice and criminology major, Afghanistan
● Sophia Lennon 25’, early childhood and special education major, Sagamore Beach,
Mass.
● Sydney Dufresne 26’, history and cultural and historic preservation majors,
sociology and anthropology minor, Somerset, Mass.
● Taylor Pendleton 26’, accounting major, marketing minor, Windham, N.H.
● Zora Felix 26’, global studies major, cyber security minor, Atlanta, Ga.