Student leader McKinney wins Marshall Scholarship

UW student Deshawn McKinney speaks during a public roundtable discussion titled "Ferguson in Context: Trauma, Violence, and Citizenship" at the Discovery Building on the UW-Madison campus.

Senior Deshawn McKinney of Milwaukee, a member of the PEOPLE and First Wave programs, has been named a winner of the Marshall Scholarship, a prestigious award given to up to 40 scholars each year to study at the graduate level at an UK institution in any field of study.