Now accepting applications from individuals interested in a 2025-2027 Emerging Leader Fellowhips. Learn more and apply here.
Could you be our next Stoneleigh Fellow?
Now accepting applications for our 2025-27 Emerging Leader Fellowships.
Addressing Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic
Our commitment to racial justice and social change
We cultivate a network of diverse leaders.
We believe in the power of individuals to effect social change.
We advance systems change in youth justice, child welfare, education, and health.
Could you be our next Stoneleigh Fellow?
Now accepting applications for our 2025-27 Emerging Leader Fellowships.
Addressing Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic
Our commitment to racial justice and social change
We cultivate a network of diverse leaders.
We believe in the power of individuals to effect social change.
We advance systems change in youth justice, child welfare, education, and health.
Could you be our next Stoneleigh Fellow?
The Stoneleigh Foundation’s mission is to improve the life outcomes of our community’s youth by advancing change in the systems that serve them. We award two types of Fellowships—the Stoneleigh Fellowship and Emerging Leader Fellowship—to exceptional leaders who work within and alongside these systems to catalyze change.
Our Priorities
Our Fellows
Stoneleigh Fellows come from a diverse array of backgrounds—they are attorneys, educators, physicians, public policy experts, program administrators, researchers, social workers, and more.
Arturo Zinny, LPC, PhD
Stoneleigh Fellow, 2023 – 2026
Executive Director, Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, Drexel University
Arturo Zinny, LPC, PhD
Stoneleigh Fellow, 2023 – 2026
Executive Director, Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, Drexel University
Fellowship Projects
Our Fellows undertake projects that enhance how systems work together, improve service design and delivery, and generate new knowledge through action-oriented research.
Advancing the Field
By investing in individuals, we are cultivating the leadership and ideas that can have long-term impact in our community and beyond.
March 28, 2025
US government cuts imperil life-saving gun violence research. As doctors, we fear…
Stoneleigh Fellow Jessica Beard and her peer trauma surgeon Elinore Kaufman have published an op-ed for The Guardian urging readers to support research to better…
March 16, 2025
Opinion: Trauma surgeons: We are bracing for a return to the rates…
Stoneleigh Fellow Jessica Beard and her colleague Elinore Kaufman have published an op-ed for The Philadelphia Inquirer discussing the risk waning support for gun violence…
March 9, 2025
Pennsylvania’s last governor appointed a statewide child advocate. Then the pushback started.
Stoneleigh Fellow and Inquirer Journalist Samantha Melamed has published an article covering the ongoing developments surrounding Pennsylvania’s Office of Advocacy and Reform as well as…
March 7, 2025
Combining AI and artmaking for youth well-being
Our Youth Partners at Creative Resilient Youth were featured by Penn Today for collaborating with a Penn4C team to build an AI-supported platform designed to…
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We accept applications for our Stoneleigh Fellowship on a rolling basis.
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