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Now accepting applications for our 2025-27 Emerging Leader Fellowships.

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Addressing Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic

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Our commitment to racial justice and social change

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We cultivate a network of diverse leaders.

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We believe in the power of individuals to effect social change.

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We advance systems change in youth justice, child welfare, education, and health.

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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.

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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.

Ruth Abaya, MD, MPH

Stoneleigh Fellow, 2020-2025

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Project

Linking Data to Identify Gun Violence Intervention Opportunities

Oronde McClain, BS

Emerging Leader Fellow, 2023 – 2025

Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting

Project

Centering the Voices of Firearm Survivors in Media

Arturo Zinny, LPC, PhD

Stoneleigh Fellow, 2023 – 2026

Executive Director, Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, Drexel University

Project

Assessing Community-Based Trauma Mental Health Care’s Efficacy

Eduardo Burgos Quezada, BA

Emerging Leader Fellow, 2023 – 2025

Nationalities Service Center

Project

Reimagining Behavioral Healthcare for Immigrant Youth

Anne Marie Ambrose, JD

Stoneleigh Fellow, 2023 – 2026

National Assessment Center Association

Project

Analyzing Delaware County’s Youth Justice Continuum

Kevin Bethel, MS

Stoneleigh Fellow, 2016 - 2020

Stoneleigh Fellow

Project

Expanding the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program

Julia Zielinski, BA

Emerging Leader Fellow, 2023 – 2025

Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia

Project

Addressing Trauma and Violence in Philadelphia’s Asian Communities

Sarah Katz, JD

Stoneleigh Fellow, 2023 – 2026

Clinical Professor of Law, Temple University

Project

Achieving Racial Justice For Families Through Legal Education and Advocacy

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.