2009 Carnegie Fellows
Angela Boyd (top left), Joel Stonington (top right), Linsay Rousseau Burnett (bottom left) and Kieran Meadows (bottom right) were 2009 Carnegie Fellows with the ABC News' Brian Ross Investigative Unit. The 10-week summer fellowship was sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation.
Angela Boyd is a graduate student at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Joel Stonington is a recent graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Linsay Rousseau Burnett is a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
Kieran Meadows is a graduate student at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism.
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