--- title: Nikki Haley: Governor Recognized for Handling of Shooting description: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will receive an award in recognition for leadership after this year's Charleston shooting. canonical: https://time.com/4055728/nikki-haley-charleston-harvard-award/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-30T15:48:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:23:47.272Z article:section: Politics og:title: Nikki Haley Receives Award for Leadership og:description: In the wake of the Charleston church shooting. og:url: https://time.com/4055728/nikki-haley-charleston-harvard-award/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce0a3bb1f92a7538/69886632f887dc6972e92a40/nikki-haley.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley addresses a Newsmaker Luncheon at the National Press Club September 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nikki Haley Receives Award for Leadership twitter:description: In the wake of the Charleston church shooting. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce0a3bb1f92a7538/69886632f887dc6972e92a40/nikki-haley.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # South Carolina Governor Recognized for Handling of Charleston Shooting > Sponsored content. 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Alex Wong—Getty Images by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Sep 30, 2015 3:48 PM UTC South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will receive an award from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations Thursday in recognition for leadership after this year’s Charleston shooting, her office said. Haley, who orchestrated the effort to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from the state capital grounds days after nine worshipers were killed at the Emanuel AME church, will deliver remarks about what the country can learn from South Carolina and its response to the shooting, her spokesman, Rob Godfrey, told TIME. She will also meet with students at the university’s center for public service. The event comes as Haley’s political stock has risen over her handling of the shooting, with her name frequently mentioned as a vice presidential contender. In August, she delivered an [emotional first-person account](http://time.com/3987657/charleston-republican-debate-nikki-haley/) of the shooting and its aftermath to Republican Party bigwigs hours before the first GOP debate in Cleveland, and in early September she delivered [remarks](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/02/gov-nikki-haley-criticizes-yell-and-scream-strategy-of-black-lives-matter-but-also-says-gop-needs-new-tone/) at the National Press Club on race relations in America. **Read Next:** [_Nikki Haley Says South Carolina Still Healing After Charleston Shootings_](http://time.com/3987657/charleston-republican-debate-nikki-haley/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4055728/nikki-haley-charleston-harvard-award/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4055728/nikki-haley-charleston-harvard-award/"},"headline":"South Carolina Governor Recognized for Handling of Charleston Shooting","datePublished":"2015-09-30T15:48:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:23:47.272Z","description":"South Carolina Gov. 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