Kimberly Leonard
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Kimberly served as The Collegian’s first online managing editor during the 2008-09 academic year, helping to launch, design and promote the newspaper’s Web site the summer before her senior year. The final product won first place in the spring of 2009 for best overall college newspaper Web site from the Student Society for News Design. Kimberly spent her junior year in New York City, interning in public relations at Time and In Style magazines, and working as an online videographer for Teach For America. During her time at Richmond, she majored in urban practice and policy, minored in journalism, worked as a French Language Across the Curriculum student instructor and played violin in the university orchestra. During her sophomore year, she was also selected to live in the “Civic Engagement House,” a living-and-learning community that surveyed the “Urban Crisis in Modern America.” Her documentary “Coleman Greene: A Story of Inclusion” was featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She has also contributed to “All About Kids” magazine and reported for “Us Weekly.” Kimberly is a Journalism & Women Symposium member and currently works in Washington, D.C., as a reporter-intern at Stateline.org, a daily news Web site dedicated to tracking, analyzing and explaining trends in state policy and politics.
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Sep 7, 2009, 12:48 am ET
Senior Matt Mello
Photo Gallery: Richmond football season opener
»By Ivori Zvorsky, Kimberly Leonard and Jimmy Young

Photos from the 2009 football season opener between the University of Richmond Spiders and the Duke University Blue Devils.

Aug 29, 2009, 5:00 pm ET
Photo Gallery: Protest at Azerbaijani embassy
»By Kimberly Leonard

Photos from the protest at the Azerbaijani embassy.

Aug 28, 2009, 7:52 pm ET
Protesters gather outside Azerbaijani embassy to support Hajizada
»By Kimberly Leonard

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Roughly 30 people stood across the street from the Azerbaijani embassy Friday afternoon chanting, “freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, free Adnan and Emin.”

May 7, 2009, 4:58 pm ET
Despite swine flu spread in Va., commencement to continue as planned
»By Kimberly Leonard and Jimmy Young

The Collegian is reporting updates about swine flu outbreak and emergency procedures on campus and in the Commonwealth.

Apr 27, 2009, 12:48 pm ET
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton rallies with McAuliffe in Richmond
»By Kimberly Leonard

Under a hot sun at Richmond’s 17th Street Farmer’s Market, former President Bill Clinton rallied 250 people Monday morning for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.

Apr 27, 2009, 12:00 am ET
Student projects culminate in documentary premiere
»By Kimberly Leonard

Two student-produced documentaries followed a poetry slam group preparing for national and an aspiring teenage singer who was homeless and traveled to Burma to visit monks and nuns.

Apr 8, 2009, 8:39 pm ET
French Film Festival
French film festival highlights differences between French and American cinema
»By Kimberly Leonard

Carytown transformed into a “petit France” March 27 to 29, as French flags lined the street and English and French speakers formed a queue around the block of the Byrd Theatre to attend the 17th annual French Film Festival.
• Photo Gallery: 2009 French Film Festival

Mar 26, 2009, 4:00 pm ET
Fake ID users beware: Va. licenses get makeover
»By Kimberly Leonard

University of Richmond students who have bought alcohol or tobacco with fake Virginia driver’s licenses are about to have a harder time getting away with it.

Mar 25, 2009, 2:40 am ET
Murray takes RCSGA presidential election
»By Kimberly Leonard

Mike Murray has defeated Andrew Howell for president of the Richmond College Student Government Association.

Feb 14, 2009, 9:19 pm ET
Vandalism leaves spray-painted cars, defaced dorm
»By Kimberly Leonard

Police are investigating a spate of vandalism that swept through the University Forest Apartments and South Court early Saturday morning.

Feb 12, 2009, 4:00 pm ET
Bill Clinton addresses Va. Dems at Jefferson-Jackson Gala
»By Kimberly Leonard

President Barack Obama frees America from the burden of its past and represents the country’s future, former President Bill Clinton told the Democratic Party of Virginia at its annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.

Jan 29, 2009, 11:35 am ET
Video: Richmond students travel to Washington for Inauguration Day
»By Kimberly Leonard

Student responses and event footage from Barack Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009.

Jan 21, 2009, 3:05 pm ET
Richmond students travel to Washington for Inauguration
»By Kimberly Leonard

Those who watched Barack Obama’s inauguration on television missed freezing temperatures, four-hour long lines, lost cell phone service and communal excitement.

Jan 20, 2009, 6:05 am ET
Inauguration Blog: Collegian reporters in Washington
»By Kimberly Leonard, David Larter and Dan Petty

Collegian writers Kimberly Leonard, Dan Petty, David Larter and Nick writer blog about their experiences at the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States.

Jan 15, 2009, 1:05 am ET
Kaine says green job creation will save Virginia’s economy
»By Kimberly Leonard

Green job creation is the solution to the future of employment in the state, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said in his annual State of the Commonwealth Address Wednesday.

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