Mizzou DSP Leadership

The Deaton Scholars Program takes pride in empowering students through leadership roles, the program directorship role, and as members of our Scholar Advisory Board.  

As of 2025, Mizzou’s DSP is hosted by the Honors College. For general questions, please contact the Mizzou Deaton Scholars Program leadership directly: DeatonScholars@missouri.edu.

 
Mizzou Deaton Scholars Program Leadership

DSP has benefited from amazing leaders over the years. Program leaders have included the following individuals, the semesters they led DSP, and their university affiliation at the time of their leadership.

Marin Chamberlin
Fall 2024 – current
Undergraduate Student in Philosophy and Constitutional Democracy
Andres Mesa Valencia
Fall 2023 – Spring 2025
Postdoctoral Fellow in Rural Sociology
Barituka Bekee
Fall 2023
Postdoctoral Fellow in Agricultural Economics
Rishabh Mahendra
Fall 2022 – Fall 2024
Graduate student in Agricultural and Applied Economics
Holly Enowski
Engaged since 2017 in many leadership roles.
Undergraduate in Science and Agricultural Journalism



Anadil Iftekhar
Fall 2022
Graduate student in Rural Sociology
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Jessica Osaze
Fall 2021-Spring 2022
Graduate student in Health Administration and Health Informatics


Summer (Higdon) LaRose
2020-2021
Graduate student and Researcher in School of Natural Resources
Jenifer Pilz
2019-2020
Yanu Prasetyu
2019-2020
Graduate student in Rural Sociology




Maria Rodriguez Alcala
2018-2019
Post-Doc in Rural Sociology
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Yassine Dguidegue
Graduate student in Rural Sociology
Chuka Emezue
2017-18
Graduate student in Public Health
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