Daniel Alejandro Leon

Daniel Alejandro Leon is an alumnus of the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative University and the 2010 Young People For Fellowship Class. He is also a 2011 Jack Kent Cooke Scholar. Through his work as an organizer and intern for the non-profit Young People For, he has helped empower youth all around the nation to create social change in their communities. He recently completed his internship at William J. Clinton Foundation, where he restructured a program that gives high school students the opportunity to intern at the foundation and go through an intensive training to prepare them for college and professional work environments. His latest project, put through for his blueprint as a 2012-2013 YP4 Senior Fellow, focused on using urban arts to bring forth diversity on his campus. He graduated from American University in May of 2013 with a B.A. in International Studies, a concentration in Comparative and International Race Relations and a minor in Music. He aspires to one day be the CEO of a company that focuses on the interactions between private and public sectors and uses the entertainment industry as a medium for social change.