Thank you to our Student Fellowship Program donor, Jerry Hirsch, whose annual donation funds the student fellows activities.

Jerry is Chairman of The Lodestar Foundation. Lodestar’s strategies are to encourage philanthropy and to encourage nonprofits to collaborate and employ other business practices. Jerry has also been instrumental in the development of several international philanthropic networks and was recognized by Barron’s magazine in 2010 as one of the world’s 25 most impactful philanthropists. He is also involved in leadership of organizations promoting peace or stability in the world; he is on the advisory board of the Global Leadership Foundation and is on the International Board of the U.S./Middle East Project, established by the Council on Foreign Relations. Jerry holds a BA, and a JD (magna cum laude) from the ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.