The Posse Foundation

05/22/2026

The Posse Gala truly was an “evening of stars” - including the newest Jeff Ubben Posse Fellows, pictured here with Posse President and Founder Deborah Bial.

Stay tuned in the coming weeks to meet each fellow individually and don’t miss out on their exclusive interviews with each of their CEO hosts at the end of the summer!

05/14/2026

Congratulations to Rhodes College Scholar Yasmine Pirlepesova on winning the Fulbright Student Award - one of five winners at the College.

Read more about Yasmine in the linked article.

Graduating senior Yasmine Pirlepesova is the fifth Rhodes student selected to receive a Fulbright U.S. Student Award for 2026-2027. The biology major is the recipient of the competitive Fulbright Study/Research Award and will conduct research in Nepal.

05/07/2026

Spread the news, a new class of Posse Ubben Fellows just dropped!

Meet the fellows:
Scholar Adrian Stancil Martin matched with Former Secretary and current Executive Director of the National Hockey League Player’s Association Marty Walsh

Scholar Angel Eunisse Yanga matched with CEO Bill Anderson

Scholar Anna Van Riesen matched with Director for the Center for Law and Public Trust Vanita Gupta

Scholar Fadhil Lawal matched with Aurora CEO and Chairman Chris Urmson

Scholar Savannah Dever matched with CEO Robert Kyncl

Join us in congratulating the fellows!

05/04/2026

We are thrilled to announce that Cornell University and Posse Ubben Fellow Alum Gloria Oladipo was selected as a The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans recipient.

The award will support her graduate studies as she pursues an MFA in Playwrighting at Yale University.

Read more about Gloria and the Soros award at the link below.

Gloria Oladipo is a playwright, critic, and journalist proudly hailing from Chicago, Illinois. Gloria’s work investigates the complications of thick, sticky, overwhelming love. Often, she writes Black comedies about Black families who do not know how to love one another but do the very best they c...

04/28/2026

Common App CEO and Posse National Board member Jenny Rickard invited Posse President and Founder Deborah Bial to Common App's 50th anniversary staff retreat. Posse Consulting led a community building session at the event.

03/12/2026

We love sharing Posse pics. to this cohort from Houston, Texas.

Do you have an awesome picture of you with your cohort that you think would be great to feature? Message us!

03/11/2026

Posse Scholars like Lehigh University's Ryan Javier are breaking barriers. Read the story linked to learn more about Javier's aspirations to be a policy designer - and how the Emerging Policy Leaders Program will propel him toward that goal.

02/20/2026

Listen in for a message from Posse President and Founder Deborah Bial. 🗣️

This month, Posse’s newest class of Scholars have begun Pre-Collegiate Training, an 8-month leadership development program that prepares Scholars to be leaders on campus and in the workforce.

Congratulations, new Posse Scholars! Do you know current PCT Scholar? Shout them out or tag them in the comments!

02/19/2026

Rhodes College, a proud Posse partner, had two finalists selected for the highly selective Truman Fellowship award including political science major and Posse Scholar Johnathan Burch, who is also the current Student Body President at the college.

Read about Johnathan's outstanding achievement in the article linked below.

Rhodes College is pleased to announce that two juniors have been selected as finalists for the highly esteemed Truman Scholarship. They are political science major Johnathan Burch and urban studies major Mitchell Leander.

02/13/2026

Middlebury College Posse alum and recent David Prize winner Rana Abdelhamid authored an Opinion piece for the The New York Times on the role of self defense in our society and her years long work teaching her personal protection curriculum around the world.

She started teaching these classes after she was attacked as a teenager.

"In my classes, people exchange phone numbers. They walk one another home. They check in and march together. They show up. Self-defense becomes a shared language, a way of caring for one another in a world that too often tells us to endure quietly," says Rana.

Read more about Rana's work in the article linked below.

I sometimes wish for a world where being a martial artist was just about the sport and not about saving our own lives.