The Jenrette Fellows Program
Supporting the next generation of professionals
The Jenrette Fellows Program is a two-year graduate fellowship designed to strengthen the education, professional preparation, and national network of emerging leaders in historic preservation. The Jenrette Fellows Program is structured to provide three core benefits: enhanced financial support through partial scholarship funding; expanded access to hands-on learning opportunities that complement academic coursework; and increased connectivity among a national cohort of fellows enrolled at leading graduate institutions.
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Meet the latest Jenrette Fellows
2026-2028 Jenrette Historic Preservation Fellow
Ava Galbraith is enrolled in the University of Oregon’s Historic Preservation program. A graduate of Wellesley College, Ava completed her Master’s in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology at Oxford University, and she has conducted research at The Hague for the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR), worked as an architectural research assistant for the Harris Environmental Group in Tucson, and served as an Architectural Historian Fellow for the Alaska Regional Office of the National Park Service. Ava has also been a curatorial assistant at Wellesley’s Davis Museum, interned with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and updated historic property records for Ebey’s Landing National Historic Reserve in Coupeville, WA. A member of the American Institute of Architects Washington Historic Resources Policy Committee, she hopes to go into government service, working to preserve the architectural and cultural artifacts of the nation.
2026-2028 Jenrette Historic Preservation Fellow
Kayla Sparks is enrolled in the Pratt Institute’s Historic Preservation Program in New York. Kayla graduated summa cum laude from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in Interior Design with a minor in Architecture and Architectural History. Kayla’s capstone project, Reroot Savannah: A Community Access Hub, explores how interior design can be used to protect cultural values while addressing contemporary social challenges. Located in a disinvested neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia, the project transforms a disused grocery store into a multifunctional community hub, integrating a grocery store, food bank, community garden, childcare, and learning center to address food insecurity and its associated stigma.
2026-2028 Jenrette Historic Preservation Fellow
Loring E. Telleen is enrolled in the Historic Preservation Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Loring holds an undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a law degree from Vanderbilt University She was a judicial extern with the Iowa Supreme Court and the Scott County District Court, and studied at the London School of Economics while interning with a Member of Parliament for the United Kingdom’s House of Commons. As an attorney, she has counseled domestic and international clients on a wide range of international law and regulatory issues. Loring is interested in Historic Preservation as an civic revitalization and economic development tool, and she has already begun this work in her own hometown of LeClaire, Iowa.
2026-2028 Jenrette Historic Preservation Fellow
Abigail Vosen is enrolled in the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. Abi majored in Studio Art and minored in Art History at Carleton College, and she has studied abroad in France and the South Pacific, focusing on mixed media and intaglio printmaking in Melbourne, Australia, as well as Australian Aboriginal and Tasmanian history, culture, and art. Abi’s interests lie in studying materials and in conservation practices, in public art, building materials and surfaces, as well as finishes and pigments. She is also very interested in community histories and cultural values.She has participated in the restoration of a log cabin in Minnesota and is a student member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC). She has also been a college radio DJ for KRLX. Being interested in the more hands-on components of the preservation of Public Art, she hopes to go into Architectural Conservation.
Meet some recent Jenrette Fellows
2023-2024 Jenrette Historic Preservation Fellow
Ryan Holcomb
Ryan is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where he majored in GeoDesign, an interdisciplinary degree centered around the intersection of architecture, city planning, and spatial sciences. The Jenrette Fellowship in Historic Preservation supported him in the Clemson University Graduate Program in Historic Preservation for two years of study.
2021-2022 Jenrette Historic Preservation Fellow
Emma Grace Sprinkle
A native of North Carolina, Emma Grace was already an experienced cultural resource management professional who had worked for both the Commonwealth Heritage Group and Old Salem Museum & Gardens, in Winston-Salem before applying to the Jenrette Fellowship. The Jenrette Fellowship in Historic Preservation supported her in the Clemson University Graduate Program in Historic Preservation for two years of study.