MMC Students Earn Prestigious Jeannette K. Watson Fellowships

(New York, NY) Marymount Manhattan College congratulates students Olivia Warren and Jeffrey Lewis, who have been awarded prestigious Jeannette K. Watson Fellowships. The Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship awards 15 talented New York City undergraduate students with paid internships for three summers. The challenging internships promote personal development and help shape the career and educational goals of awarded students.

Jeffrey Edward Lewis is a sophomore at MMC with an interest in poetry, graphic design and photography and a passion for addressing intolerance through art and writing. Jeff is a communication arts major who has worked as an orientation leader, peer mentor, and admissions assistant at the College. He has participated as a phonathon caller and coordinator for the Office of Institutional Advancement. Jeff has become the driving force behind a re-design of the Comm Arts magazine, “C” Magazine, on which he serves as design editor. This spring, he applied his talents to the task of designing the MMC literary and arts annual publication, the MM Review. Jeff worked at the John Crerar Library in Chicago last summer, where he designed a publication showcasing his writing- including several poems and a story- and hosted a reading for library friends and colleagues. 

Olivia Anne Warren is a first-year student at Marymount Manhattan and a recipient of the Dean’s Award of Excellence for her WRIT 101 paper: The Muse of Humanity at the College’s annual Honor’s Day. Olivia is a dance major, concentrating in choreography and modern dance, who is motivated by “the humane approach to humanity,” the idea that people need to communicate through listening and asking questions in order to gain knowledge to impact the world. Olivia has served as the freshman representative to the MMC Board of Dance Representatives and a member of the Residence Hall Council. Her future career interests include politics and government.

Graduates of the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship have gone on to enroll in graduate school, win national fellowships, find jobs in their chosen fields and volunteer for service opportunities such as Teach for America and the Peace Corps. The program encourages fellows to engage in internships in nonprofit organizations, government service and private enterprise. Internships offer students opportunities for leadership, experiential learning and guidance from mentor relationships. Fellows can select to spend a third summer in another country or city after interning for the first two summers in New York City. 

To read more about the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship, please click here.

Published: April 16, 2008