LEONARD & SANDY SARGENT UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES GRADUATE FELLOWS

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The Sargents on Len's 80th birthday
In 1992, Rick Hubbard Sargent and his wife, Judi Stauffer, presented his parents with a unique gift on the occasion of Len’s 80th birthday. They created the Leonard and Sandy Sargent Graduate Fellowship Endowment Fund within the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana. The purpose of the fellowships was and remains, “... to provide support to students with a demonstrated record of [environmental] activism.” Rick and Judi are committed to growing the endowment and, since 2016, have partnered with the Cinnabar Foundation by providing an annual restricted gift to ensure annual funding for a fellowship recipient while the endowment continues to grow through earned income.

The Endowment began making grants in 1995, since then 51 fellowships have been awarded. Many of the recipients are now professionally engaged in environmental advocacy, and all of them remain dedicated to environmental protection.

Applications are made through the UM EVST Program, not the Cinnabar Foundation. 

Past recipients include:

1992-93    Jim McGrath
1994-95    Tom Platt
1995-96    Carla Abrams, Olga Maiboroda, Rob Perks, Bryony Schwan, and Seth Wilson
1996-97    Kaarsten Turner
1997-98    John Adams, Kira Sherwood-Jewett
1998-99    Keith Stockmann
1999-00    Mary Anne Hitt and Kristen Sykes
2000-01    Dan Brister and Amy Stix
2001-02    Gary Hughes and Pamela Uihlein
2002-03    Amy Barry
2003-04    Josh Burnim, Derek Goldman, Carolina McCready and Joellen Shannon
2004-05    Margot Higgins, Melissa Matthewson and John Senn
2005-06    no fellowship awarded
2006-07    Jason Brininstool 
2007-08    Cassidy Randall
2008-09    Shannon Donahue and Jennifer Hill-Hart 
2009-10    Aaron Kindle
2010-11    Talasi Brooks, Heather Day, Jonathan Leiman and Micah Sewell
2011-12    Douglas A. Davis and Kate Sheridan
2012-13    Kascie Herron and Stephanie Laporte
2013-14    Elizabeth (Ellie) Costello and Rachel Mockler
2014-15    Sam Plotkin and Nick Triolo
2015-16    Adam Andis and Tabitha Espinoza
2016-17    Terri Nichols
2017-18    Rachel Ackerman
2018-19    Holly Seymour
2019-20    Daniel Anderson
2020-21    no fellowship awarded
2021-22    Gardner Dee
2022-23    Paige Johnson
2023-24    August Guenthner
2024-25    Mara Pellerito