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Presidential Leadership Scholars

How to become e pluribus unum

If anything, the American experiment is a test of whether a multiracial, multiethnic democracy can survive, endure, and thrive. To do that, we’re going to have to learn to live together. In a Nation of over 330 million, it won’t be easy. But I’m hopeful.

Michael Cooper

Class of 2020

Presidential Leadership Scholars

Achieving success in rural schools

This interview with 2022 Presidential Leadership Program Scholar Elisabeth Luevanos was originally published in The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the Bush Institute.

Elisabeth Avila Luevanos

Class of 2022