2008 Distinguished Leadership Awards

Dean’s List; Public Affairs Department - Press Release Writer; Environmental Studies Program - Secretary; The Denisonian - Features Editor; LeaderShape Institute; Denison Progressive Alliance - Founder and President; Animal Liberation League - Founder and President; Green Team - Director of Water/Energy Reduction and Paper Campaign; Bottled Water Campaign; Women’s Emphasis; Jazz Ensemble - Principal Trombonist

Supporting comments: "Jeff has been widely recognized by faculty, staff and his student peers for his commitment to scholarship and leadership in the classroom as well as his application of knowledge to create a more just world. His exceptional desire to connect his academic understanding to his commitment to social justice makes him an exemplary scholar and activist leader. Jeff has worked tirelessly to organize a number of student movements devoted to improving the conditions of animals raised for human consumption and for environmental sustainability. Politically engaged and deeply interested in the question of how to get others engaged as well, he demonstrated the vision to create an umbrella organization which will continue this important work in subsequent years."