Meinert, who was a member of the GWU class of 2000, became active in several civic organizations there. In 1997, he ran for the school's student government.
Damian McKenna, who was then president of the student government, said he remembers Meinert as a hard worker.
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"He was a really nice kid...I liked a lot of his ideas," McKenna said.
As a GWU first-year in 1996, Meinert organized a pediatric AIDS benefit run.
A year later, he joined GWU's Colonial Cabinet--the university's equivalent of Harvard's Crimson Key.
That organization is highly selective, choosing only 20 of nearly 400 students who apply annually.
In 1998, Meinert ran for a spot on a D.C. neighborhood association, narrowly losing.
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