Friday, May 14, 2010

10 LGBT public leaders win Harvard fellowships

The Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute announced 10 winners of scholarships to attend the Harvard Kennedy School this summer. Among those selected to become David Bohnett Leadership Fellows: Kim Iwamoto (left), an openly transgender woman who was elected to the Hawaii Board of Education; Joel Burns, a member of the City Council in Fort Worth, Texas; and Ian Palmquist, executive director of Equality North Carolina.