Inspiring Leaders
Knight-Hennessy Scholars cultivates and supports a multidisciplinary and multicultural community of graduate students from across Stanford University, and delivers engaging experiences that prepare graduates to be visionary, courageous, and collaborative leaders who address complex challenges facing the world.
Discover the Knight-Hennessy scholar journey
Stanford University
All scholars are Stanford University graduate students, who join Knight-Hennessy Scholars in addition to enrolling in a graduate degree program at any of Stanford's seven schools.
![John talking with scholars at the social hackathon](https://cdn.statically.io/img/knight-hennessy.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj23586/files/styles/card_1900x950/public/media/image/khs_022220_0287_0.jpg?h=1de888fa&itok=3PvkpntH)
Knight-Hennessy Community
A new cohort of scholars joins each year, adding to a diverse community of scholars from across disciplines, nationalities, perspectives, and backgrounds. Scholars learn together, collaborate on impactful projects, and develop lifelong friendships.
![Scholoars looking at a board with white notecards on it.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/knight-hennessy.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj23586/files/styles/card_1900x950/public/media/image/1021knighthennessy322.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=qAxjXZf6)
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What characterizes a Knight-Hennessy scholar?
![Scholars talking](https://cdn.statically.io/img/knight-hennessy.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj23586/files/styles/card_1900x950/public/media/image/khs_022220_0029.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=tw2rPjzr)
Purposeful Leadership
Knight-Hennessy scholars are courageous leaders who are ethical, decisive, resilient, driven to achieve meaningful results, and motivated to inspire others to effect positive change at scale.
![Scholars talking at a table](https://cdn.statically.io/img/knight-hennessy.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj23586/files/styles/card_1900x950/public/media/image/khs_022220_0045.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=GX8vercP)
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See the 2022-2023 Annual Report (pdf)