Kimberly Leonard
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Kimberly served as The Collegian’s first online managing editor during the 2008-09 academic year, helping to launch, design and promote the newspaper’s Web site the summer before her senior year. The final product won first place in the spring of 2009 for best overall college newspaper Web site from the Student Society for News Design. Kimberly spent her junior year in New York City, interning in public relations at Time and In Style magazines, and working as an online videographer for Teach For America. During her time at Richmond, she majored in urban practice and policy, minored in journalism, worked as a French Language Across the Curriculum student instructor and played violin in the university orchestra. During her sophomore year, she was also selected to live in the “Civic Engagement House,” a living-and-learning community that surveyed the “Urban Crisis in Modern America.” Her documentary “Coleman Greene: A Story of Inclusion” was featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She has also contributed to “All About Kids” magazine and reported for “Us Weekly.” Kimberly is a Journalism & Women Symposium member and currently works in Washington, D.C., as a reporter-intern at Stateline.org, a daily news Web site dedicated to tracking, analyzing and explaining trends in state policy and politics.
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Feb 14, 2009, 9:19 pm ET
Vandalism leaves spray-painted cars, defaced dorm
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Police are investigating a spate of vandalism that swept through the University Forest Apartments and South Court early Saturday morning.

Feb 12, 2009, 4:00 pm ET
Bill Clinton addresses Va. Dems at Jefferson-Jackson Gala
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President Barack Obama frees America from the burden of its past and represents the country’s future, former President Bill Clinton told the Democratic Party of Virginia at its annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.

Jan 29, 2009, 11:35 am ET
Video: Richmond students travel to Washington for Inauguration Day
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Student responses and event footage from Barack Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009.

Jan 21, 2009, 3:05 pm ET
Richmond students travel to Washington for Inauguration
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Those who watched Barack Obama’s inauguration on television missed freezing temperatures, four-hour long lines, lost cell phone service and communal excitement.

Jan 20, 2009, 6:05 am ET
Inauguration Blog: Collegian reporters in Washington
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Collegian writers Kimberly Leonard, Dan Petty, David Larter and Nick writer blog about their experiences at the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States.

Jan 15, 2009, 1:05 am ET
Kaine says green job creation will save Virginia’s economy
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Green job creation is the solution to the future of employment in the state, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said in his annual State of the Commonwealth Address Wednesday.

Dec 31, 2008, 7:30 pm ET
The Collegian’s Top 15 of 2008
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2008 is nearly finished, and The Collegian is looking back at this year’s most memorable stories, from good to bad, celebratory to controversial, sad and tragic, and in one case, the downright bizarre.

Dec 19, 2008, 10:40 am ET
Video: National Championship Preview
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Video of Thursday’s press conferences and practices.

Nov 20, 2008, 3:00 pm ET
Reflections on a trip across America
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I was driving west on Interstate 64 two weeks ago, past McDonald’s signs and strip club billboards, into the nighttime abyss under the stars. All I wanted that night was to spend my life traveling across America with a pen and paper in hand, writing about all that I found.

Nov 13, 2008, 4:01 pm ET
E-mail sender sanctioned
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The University Hearing Board has disciplined Kappa Sigma’s former recruitment chairman for the sexually explicit e-mail that circulated on campus recently.

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