Bohnett Leadership Fellows

David Bohnett Gay & Lesbian Leadership Fellows at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

Thanks to funding from the David Bohnett Foundation, the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute has grown its collaboration Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government to offer the Senior Executives in State and Local Government program to leaders from the LGBT community. The program, which has been in existence since 2001, gets its funding from a $500,000 grant that the Bohnett foundation has sponsored.

The program, now called the David Bohnett Gay & Lesbian Leadership Fellow, is designed primarily for senior-level executives from state, county and local governments, and their elected counterparts. Executives who work with state and local governments - including nonprofit organizations and national associations - find the program extremely valuable as well.

Because the participants' professional expertise and experience is critical to the learning process, each session’s members are selected to reflect a broad spectrum of functional responsibilities and levels of government, as well as geographical diversity.

The Leadership Institute provides scholarships that help meet the costs of the program to those LGBT individuals who have already been accepted by the Kennedy School.

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On the application, include the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute in the financial sponsor section of your application. Please notify the Leadership Institute after you apply.

After the Kennedy School has accepted you into the program, they will send us your application to review for a potential scholarship. We will notify all applicants as to the status of their scholarship request after final deliberation from the selection committee. Both Harvard and the Leadership Institute use review and selection criteria in determining acceptance. 

For more information, contact:

Tressa Feher
Director, Leadership Network
202.842.7312
tressa.feher@glli.org