CLINTON — The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization awarded Undergraduate Fellow Kayla Safran the inaugural $3,500 fellowship award to the Buckley School of Public Speaking.

The AHI and the Buckley School partnered to create a fellowship for an AHI Undergraduate Fellow who has distinguished himself or herself in the work of the organization.

Ms. Safran has served as the inaugural leader of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows at Hamilton College and is from Closter, New Jersey. She was chosen to receive the award by the AHI Charter Fellows professors.

The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization was founded in 2007 to promote excellence in scholarship through the study of freedom, democracy, and capitalism.

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