Maurice Henderson Honored for Political Achievements
 In March 2006, political activist Maurice Henderson (’97)
was named deputy press secretary for Virginia Governor
Timothy Kaine. In this hot-seat role, Henderson fields
media inquiries and assists the governor in informing
citizens about initiatives, legislation and priorities.
After graduating from the Jepson
School of Leadership Studies, Henderson taught English
to students in Hungary and Taiwan. Then the Center of
Excellence for Applied Research and Training (CERT), the
commercial arm of the Higher Colleges of Technology in
the United Arab Emirates, approached Henderson with a
job offer, and he headed to the Middle East.
Henderson eventually returned to
the United States and earned his master’s degree. He
worked in Virginia and Missouri on Democratic primary
races and in Ohio as a communications operative for the
state chapter of America Coming Together, which support
progressive candidates during the 2004 elections.
Henderson also advocated for the United Steelworkers are
becoming a national communications specialist for the
international union in January 2005.
Now that he’s been involved in
politics for a few years, Henderson says that one day,
he may like to run for office himself.
In service to the Jepson School,
Maurice was instrumental in bringing Gov. Kaine to
Jepson Hall in November, 2006 for a significant,
standing-room-only keynote address in which the
governor reflected on “Leadership Lessons from his First
Year in Office.” Henderson also participated in the 2007
“Real World” program that connects young university
alumni to current students in advising sessions about
work and life. He also serves on the Jepson School’s
informal alumni advisory group who want to forge closer
relationships to the School and its students and help
plan events honoring the School’s upcoming 15th
anniversary.
Henderson graduated from the Jepson
School of Leadership Studies with a bachelor’s degree,
then went on to earn a master’s degree in public
administration at Sojourner-Douglass College in
Baltimore.
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