Fellowship Leadership

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FELLOWSHIP LEADERSHIP

At RISE IPL:

✔ Current college students → Interns

✔ Graduates, master’s & doctoral students → Fellow Coordinators

This structure allows Fellows to gain:

  • Supervisory experience

  • Corporate-level project management skills

  • Leadership over national community impact initiatives

  • Direct engagement with executives, chambers of commerce, and partners

 

This pathway prepares young professionals for advanced academic study, corporate advancement, and global leadership.

2025 FELLOW COORDINATOR

Sudheer Kumar Gopalpet

Education & Public Health Fellow
Major of the Year Award, Texas A&M University–Commerce (2025)

Sudheer brings advanced public health skills, strategic thinking, and research-based leadership to RISE IPL.

His contributions include:

  • Supporting national and local community-impact projects

  • Coordinating youth leadership and health promotion programs

  • Assisting in small-business development and partnership building

  • Providing data-driven insights to strengthen program effectiveness

  • Engaging in multi-state education and community initiatives

Sudheer exemplifies professionalism, initiative, and a deep commitment to improving health outcomes and community wellbeing.

2024 FELLOW COORDINATOR

Ylona Asseke

Master’s Student, Political Science – Communication & Power
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Ylona brought exceptional leadership, academic distinction, and global perspective to the Fellowship Program.

Her contributions included:

  • Leading and coordinating international Fellow/Intern teams

  • Supporting cross-cultural communication initiatives

  • Managing Fortune 500–aligned projects

  • Planning multi-state initiatives

  • Strengthening nonprofit capacity-building

  • Providing organizational leadership at a graduate level

Ylona set a high bar for future Fellow Coordinators and helped shape the Fellowship’s global leadership pipeline.