Message from Dean Cecilia Rouse:

 

We at the Woodrow Wilson School were deeply saddened to learn that Clementa Pinckney was murdered in a horrific hate crime at his church, the Mother Emanuel A.M.E. in Charleston, South Carolina. A senior pastor at Mother Emanuel and a member of the South Carolina Senate, he had been conducting Bible study at the time of the mass shooting.

 

We knew Clementa from the summer of 1994, when he participated in the Junior Summer Institute (JSI) at the Wilson School – a program Princeton has hosted since 1985. JSI prepares undergraduate students for graduate study and careers in public policy and international affairs. Its mission is to teach students how to evaluate and affect policy in a multicultural, multiethnic society. 

 

Clementa was the embodiment of the JSI program. He had a deeply analytical mind, which he used in his passionate search for justice. 

 

The world said goodbye to him in body on Friday, but his spirit will always be remembered.