The Finance Department’s goal is to enhance the financial health of the city and to provide financial information, advice, and support to the public, city agencies, and policymakers regarding city resources. During the internship, I focused on two projects. For the first project, I worked on a data management team that included members from several city departments. We collaborated on the development of a data guide to help standardize how data is collected, maintained, and used. This is an integral part of the City’s Results Madison program, the purpose of which is to help the city effectively use its data to provide excellent service to its residents. Secondly, I had the opportunity to be a project lead for a research project on behalf of the mayor and city council. This project involved working with several departments to gather data, analyze the data using ArcGIS, conduct urban policy research, and wrote a research paper. The internship has been a very rewarding and stimulating learning experience in local government. As a policy fellow with the ACLU, I worked directly under a civil rights lawyer who serves as the State Director for the ACLU. This has been a gratifying experience as I helped expand voter accessibility in the 2018 midterm election. I researched and analyzed data on voter demographics and turnout in Wisconsin to create a strategic, digital ad campaign, and design content to educate voters. I also researched voting laws in Wisconsin to create a library of documents for volunteers, law students, and other voting nonprofits. The primary component of the ACLU's campaign for the midterm election was a voter helpline. We built a helpline that voters can call for any questions on voter registration, photo IDs, voter eligibility, and transportation to the Division of Motor Vehicles or polls. I managed the volunteers who monitored the helpline and canvassed on weekends to supply voter education. Our helpline answered questions for more than 500 voters, our volunteers knocked on thousands of doors in Milwaukee and Madison, and our social media content reached hundreds of thousands of people. It was humbling to be a part of this project with the ACLU. Downtown Madison, Inc. (DMI), is a membership-based, nonprofit advocacy organization focused on ensuring downtown Madison offers a high quality of life to businesses, residents, and visitors. A key function of the organization is facilitating collaboration among the business community, nonprofit organizations, residents, and local government to develop interventions for improving the downtown. My primary responsibility was to research peer cities’ policy and planning interventions for conditions that DMI and partner organizations were interested in addressing. I usually compiled this information into case studies that were shared with our partners. My research projects spanned diverse topics, ranging from community prosecution models to programs that provide storage of personal belongings for people experiencing homelessness. The connection between my work and the local downtown community helped make my work especially rewarding. As an intern I also had the opportunity to participate in the many events and committee meetings that DMI organizes for its members. DMI was a truly great place to intern, and I will continue to work there during the spring semester. I would certainly recommend this internship to other La Follette students, especially those whose interests are at the intersection of policy and urban planning. I am truly thankful to the organization’s leadership and staff for helping make my internship such a positive experience.
My internship with the City of Madison Parks Division exposed me to various aspects of local government, particularly in the areas of budgeting, finance, and administration. I primarily worked on developing the Division’s 2019 operating budget, one of two budgets the Division puts together annually. I gained a great deal of insight and knowledge about government finance and budgeting during this time. The Parks Division has over 15 sections, encompassing community service, programming, operations and planning, and development. It was my responsibility to work with each section to develop the optimal budget for 2019. During the budget process, I also met weekly with the Division’s upper management, exposing me to the various challenges faced by public managers in municipal government. For anyone interested in working in finance or public management, this would be an invaluable experience. During the latter portion of my internship, my focus shifted from work with the operating budget to work with the Division’s capital projects and non-tax levy revenue streams. I helped prepare calculations used in determining special charges for services rendered by the downtown business community. I also assisted in drafting and writing both a resolution and legal notice that was sent to the downtown business community and appropriate alders. This was a great opportunity to use the skills I learned in Public Management and Policy Analysis during my first year at La Follette. My work with Parks’ capital projects gave me insight into the operational and administrative side of the Division. There is a great deal of up-front administrative work that needs to be done for the planning and development team to begin a project, including setting up project funding strings. This cannot be done until the final executive budget is adopted in November but needs to be done before the start of the new budget year. The quick pace of this work was a great experience. If you are looking for an opportunity to experience many aspects of local government, this internship is a great one.
Toward the beginning of my studies at the La Follette School and Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture, I began interning for the UW-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development (CCED). CCED provides applied research, educational programs, and assistance on community and economic development to individuals, local governments, and community organizations. My supervisor works primarily with strategic marketing, and I helped her with several initiatives. Thus far, my favorite has been participating in a design charrette for the City of Kewaunee, Wisconsin. A design charrette includes groups of professionals and volunteers assessing a community’s wants and needs, literally drawing out solutions, then devising an implementation strategy. I participated in the charrette on the day-of, but also crafted some demographic reports for the community to use beforehand. I created similar reports for several other communities. My other major responsibility has been to update the CCED website. I began this project over the summer, and it came immediately after finishing my Public Management client project; the State of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife wanted our group to reimagine its public engagement strategies, which included conducting research on effective website design theory. Updating the CCED website is still a work in progress, but I have been able to apply what I learned for my Public Management project to my work every step of the way.
I was a political economy intern in the Latin American Program (LAP) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Wilson Center is the living memorial to President Woodrow Wilson and a non-partisan foreign policy and international relations think tank. The LAP researches and publishes on all policy issues related to the Western Hemisphere, along with the Wilson Center’s Canada, Mexico, and Brazil institutes. As an intern, I supported the work of LAP and Director Cynthia Arnson through a variety of administrative and research tasks. On the administrative side, I helped plan, run, and photograph events; record, edit, and publish podcasts; and prepare grant proposals for submission. I also worked on various projects translating documents to and from Spanish and editing articles and policy papers. In terms of research, I served as the first investigator into new political developments throughout Latin America, with a particular focus on Colombia and its peripheral countries. One major project I worked on involved creating an infographic and one-page summary article detailing the effect of emigration from Venezuela to Colombia due to the economic crisis in the former country. Other projects included work on trade with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Pacific Alliance, and on corruption investigations in Peru and Argentina. Overall, my experience at the Wilson Center was outstanding. I have always wanted to work at a think tank and learn from this piece of policymaking, and the Wilson Center satisfied that goal and more. I learned immensely from my supervisors and peers, and it has helped clarify my career path.
This summer, I interned at a bipartisan nonprofit organization focused on transparency and ethics in government called Issue One. Starting in late May as a research & investigations Intern under Issue One’s research manager, a former investigative reporter, I worked on a report detailing political spending by large political nonprofit entities in federal elections since the landmark Citizens United decision. A couple of weeks into the internship, the intern team had grown to four students, one of whom was another research & investigations intern with whom I worked on the aforementioned projects throughout the summer. The bulk of the work consisted of learning about policy surrounding campaign finance laws, disclosure rules for government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service or the Department of Labor, attending Federal Election Commission sessions and parsing regulatory language, listening to stakeholders, researching and fact-finding public filings, fact-checking documents, and putting together an accurate report on campaign spending. As the summer went on, the events I attended gave me insights into the policy-making process, and resulted in an opportunity for me to write multiple event memos. Issue One also provided great exposure to the workings of a bipartisan organization committed to building a broad coalition to affect change in the political system. Overall, the internship was an excellent opportunity for understanding the nuance of campaign finance law and exposed me to the great efforts happening among various public interest groups working to reform it.
I interned at the Wisconsin Office of Children’s Mental Health (OCMH). Written into the 2013-2015 biennial budget and established in 2014, the OCMH is a relatively new state agency. Its goals include improving access to mental health services for children and families through the alignment and coordination of initiatives that help to monitor programs. It also seeks to reduce administrative redundancies and inefficiencies within state agencies. My work at the OCMH included attending multi-agency meetings that were in the planning or finalization stages of setting forth programs surrounding child mental health. These meetings allowed me to view the breadth of the activities in which OCMH plays a role. The bulk of my activities included updating and preparing various child mental health status indicators for the OCMH’s annual report for the public and legislators interested in developing policies related to children’s mental health. These analyses included pulling data from state and national level data sources such as the U.S. Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and so forth. While at the OCMH, I learned how state agencies operate and how positive interpersonal relationships are vital to the success of initiatives that may have partisan incongruences. The OCMH was an interesting agency to work for in part because of its unique administrative structure. OCMH is a politically appointed agency established by Gov. Scott Walker and although situated, but not managed under, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, it was an invaluable case study for me to see how new agencies that are meant to challenge preconceived administrative infrastructure can coexist among departments with historically steadfast cultures.
As the Education for Displaced Students Program and Development Intern at Bard College Berlin, I had several responsibilities: My literature review helped me gain background understanding of the current landscape of blended learning initiatives, the challenges that refugee students face in obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and the new and innovative programs for these students. After reviewing the Bard program syllabus and website in detail and speaking with the program professors, I designed interview questions for students who had participated in the program and interviewed 13 students. As I transcribed and coded my interviews, I was able to evaluate the program’s results based on several criteria, including English language skill development, increased confidence around speaking and writing, and students’ planned (or current) next steps in their academic pathways. It was a privilege to get to know these amazing students and hear their stories.
At the Government Accountability Office, I leveraged the skills I have learned at the La Follette School to contribute to objective, non-partisan research. My internship focused on analyzing the current state of extended foster care and transitional housing programs for foster youth. The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources requested this research after 26 states extended foster care services to young people up to 21 years old to help them transition into adulthood. I entered the project during the evidence-gathering phase, so my work primarily involved interviewing stakeholders and reviewing research on best practices for youth transitioning out of the child welfare system. During this process, I applied my experience in reviewing academic literature, and I used my experience talking with government officials during our client projects to conduct interviews effectively and gather evidence in an unbiased fashion. The work environment was very similar to the collaborative nature of our client projects, where work is divided among team members then brought together to create a single product that summarizes our collective research efforts. Similarly, I utilized the lessons I learned about concise writing to summarize relevant Congressional hearings for the rest of my team.
I interned at Fundación En Vía, a small nonprofit organization committed to women’s empowerment that provides business education and interest-free microfinance loans to women in the central valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. En Vía also leads tours to communities where it works, which is how the organization is funded. Although the organization serves more than 250 women, it has only seven paid staff members. Therefore, volunteers play an essential role in carrying out the programs. My primary responsibilities were developing the education program curriculum, creating success indicators for the program, and presenting a program evaluation plan. Additionally, I helped implement the new education program, participated in the weekly collection of loan payments, and worked as a supervisor to give pedagogical feedback to the new business teacher. My experience in Oaxaca gave me an understanding of how nonprofit organizations operate and the impact these small organizations can have on the people they serve. During my time there, I was able to develop several skills I learned at the La Follette School and the School of Education. As my final project, I wrote an evaluation plan that drew on ideas from several classes, including program evaluation, policy analysis, statistics, and public management. Although I did not actually use numbers to conduct a program evaluation, my understanding of statistical concepts was instrumental for providing my recommendations for En Vía. In addition, using an alternatives matrix helped me visualize the recommendations I presented to the executive director in a pithy and informative memoranda.
I was one of two La Follette School interns in the Madison Metropolitan School District’s (MMSD) Research & Program Evaluation Office. I took this position because I was interested in learning how education policies are formed at the district level, and I wanted a taste of what it was like to work on a team doing research and program evaluation. My co-intern and I worked on two projects. Our first project was to document the process of creating data use agreements (DUAs) and to present recommendations for simplifying and improving this process. To do this, we scheduled and conducted interviews with anyone who had created a DUA with MMSD and compiled our findings into a report. The MMSD posted the report on its website for all external researchers to access when requesting data from MMSD. Our second project was to write a report based on the findings of a recent survey of MMSD high school seniors. We were tasked with redesigning the report format and presenting the findings through an intensive data-visualization presentation. We evaluated the survey findings and identified those that could be the most helpful to MMSD staff. We also discussed the most surprising and most overlooked findings, based on our readings of past reports. My co-intern and I worked in Tableau and Excel to read the data and to design a visually pleasing report. By the end of the summer, I wrote two reports and presented findings and recommendations to MMSD staff, including my supervisors.
As an intern with the U.S. Department of State, I was assigned to the Counter Narcotics Division at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City, Guatemala. My primary duties were end-use monitoring and the development of standard operating procedures for the division. As the end-use monitor, I was responsible for visiting all Counter Narcotics partners in Guatemala and ensuring that equipment donated to the Guatemalan police was in good condition and used as intended. In this role, I had the opportunity to travel throughout the country and meet high-ranking members of the Guatemalan police and military while representing the U.S. government. Writing standard operating procedures for the division allowed me to develop a deeper knowledge of the tasks that staff perform to efficiently run a U.S. government division abroad. In addition to my primary responsibilities, I attended official meetings at the U.S. Embassy and with the Guatemalan government, and I took part in a drug eradication aimed at eliminating poppy and marijuana plants in the Guatemalan highlands. My internship afforded me exposure to the inner-workings of U.S. foreign policy, a familiarity with the Guatemalan government, and the opportunity to learn about the different public policy positions that are available outside the United States.
I worked as an intern at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, which is an independent nonpartisan organization that focuses on global issues. The organization functions as a think tank, publishing independent research and analysis, conducting surveys on American public opinion, and bringing together top international leaders in business and government in forums and task forces. I worked for the Council’s Senior Fellow on Global Cities-Energy and Climate, and my work centered on energy and climate policy. My primary responsibility was contributing to a Council report, Building Urban Futures: City Carbon Actions Anchored in Building Codes and Standards. The report focused on how buildings contribute to energy use within cities and how codes and standards can lead to low-carbon buildings and ultimately low-carbon cities. This report exposed me to how research is conducted within organizations and allowed me to work extensively with two people to refine ideas and form recommendations. I also worked on a ground-level effort to accelerate low-carbon growth in the Chicago area. I attended workshops for this project where local leaders discussed potential lo- carbon projects. Throughout the summer, I had the opportunity to attend various Council events, including a three-day forum, the Chicago Forum on Global Cities, and several presentations by international energy and global affairs experts.
I interned at the We International Inc., a small nonprofit organization focusing on international development initiatives, early childhood education, and women’s empowerment in Uganda and the Philippines. My responsibilities included, but were not limited to, redesigning the company’s microfinance program in Uganda, creating new loan-client datasets, and recalculating optimal loan sizes and interest rates for various industries. I also used past tax forms to create program-specific budgets and changed transparency procedures to attract new donors. This internship gave me great insight into the behind-the-scenes work of nonprofit organizations. I have done volunteer work before, but I have never seen the true inner workings of a nonprofit organization. People coming together and working for a cause is so much more far reaching than I ever knew. Working for We International was an enriching and enlightening experience, because I learned firsthand the unique challenges in managing a nonprofit organization that operates in a developing country. Corresponding to Uganda itself presents unique infrastructural and cultural challenges (such as unreliable internet connections) that made data collection and analysis difficult. My internship was an invaluable experience because I directly applied and developed skills I have learned at the La Follette School, and I was challenged to address issues unique to a nonprofit organization operating in a foreign country.
I interned in the National Security Division of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). I worked on an exploratory research project in which I studied Vietnam veterans’ paths to retirement. I spent the earlier part of the summer reviewing literature to familiarize myself with the subject area and choosing a data source, which involved comparing results from several surveys to Veteran’s Affairs administrative data. Because my analysis would involve small subpopulations of veterans, I needed to ensure that the survey data adequately captured these populations. After choosing a dataset, I used Stata and Excel to create tables showing average income by age, labor force participation, and general descriptive characteristics (e.g. education, occupation, race, functional disability) for Vietnam veterans and civilians. Focusing on income, I used regression analysis to assess a potential effect of veteran status on retirement income, holding various characteristics constant. At the end of the summer, I presented my results to the division. In addition, I attended various CBO seminars to learn more about the agency’s breadth of work. I also attended guest speaker events at CBO and attended the Congressional Intern Lecture Series, where various members of Congress, cabinet secretaries, and Supreme Court justices spoke. Overall, I improved my quantitative research skills while gaining exposure to Washington, and I am incredibly grateful for my well-rounded experience as a CBO intern.
As an economics student trainee, I worked on two research projects with ERS economists: one to analyze health behaviors that could contribute to increased mortality among rural white Americans over the past decade and another to determine if U.S. farmers experience higher levels of psychological distress than other populations. I worked with a series of complex datasets, cleaned and prepared data for analysis, and analyzed the data in the context of each research question. Day to day, the work involved coding in statistical software, econometric and statistical analyses, and reading papers for methodological insight for how to approach data analysis. Interns at ERS also had the opportunity to attend seminars with visiting scholars and trainings on coding, and new techniques in economic research. At the end of the summer, interns presented their research findings at a seminar attended by economists and other interns across the agency to get feedback on their methodology and receive suggestions for improvement. The feedback I received from my supervisor and other economists was invaluable and strengthened my coding, quantitative research, and econometric analysis skills. This internship gave me the opportunity to apply and strengthen skills learned at the La Follette School in a policy-relevant research context.
I interned with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the “congressional watchdog” in Washington, DC. In addition to investigating how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars, one of the major roles of the GAO is to hold the Executive Branch accountable for program performance. I joined my team about halfway into its project and quickly started doing the work of a full-time GAO analyst. I managed the data collection, analysis, and follow-up with one of the case study agencies we reviewed. I synthesized the findings from this analysis into an overall “story” of the agency’s performance. I also drafted the objective, scope, and method for the final report, which details the process the team used to develop its overall findings and recommendations. My favorite part of the project was working toward the message of the final report. The kickoff for messaging is an exercise called Writing on Walls. With everyone on the project in one room, team members go through the evidence they have collected, and determine as a group what the evidence means. It’s an opportunity to zoom out from the detailed day-to-day work and focus on the big picture. My team welcomed my participation in this process, and I developed initial language for one of the report findings. The GAO also has a strong learning culture. I attended a congressional hearing where the comptroller general testified and attended interviews with policy experts at the Urban Institute and at Standard &Poor’s. I attended GAO-hosted events on topics about sea-level rise, income inequality in the United States, and China’s role in the global economy. The GAO also hosted a series of panel discussions with senior leadership for interns and entry-level trainees. For me, an internship with the GAO was a unique and rewarding experience that puts the skills developed in the classroom into practice while providing an opportunity to experience life in DC and the culture of the federal government. I’d highly recommend the experience for other La Follette School students, especially those interested in program evaluation and similar work.
As a full-time legislative staff member, I was given many real-world activities we study atthe La Follette School. I started my summer speaking with a constituent who plans to spend his life in the Navy is concerned that he will not be allowed to use portions of his GI benefits because of the statute’s current language. With a drafting attorney, I wrote a preliminary bill for ensuring that service people receive all GI benefits no matter their circumstances. During the drafting process, I had the unique opportunity to go through the policy analysis process. I weighed alternatives, set goals, and searched for negative externalities. While I did not have to present my findings or write a paper, I used my analysis to guide my judgement in building the preliminary draft’s statutory language and other draft decisions. Through my time with this constituent (which is still ongoing), I received first-hand experience on the policy-making process and am excited to see where this draft can go. I also served as the caucus intern coordinator. I recruited, interviewed, and hired unpaid interns for various representatives. Finally, as a legislative staffer, I aided in the wrap-up work for the 2017-18 session and prepared/set the agenda for the 2019-20 legislative session that begins in January. I researched past bills and brainstormed future bills my boss would like to introduce if given the the opportunity. Overall, my experience with the Assembly was delightful and insightful. I am excited to continue my work in the public sector.
I worked for three grants managers in the Office of Crime Victims Services (OCVS) within the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ), where I learned about and assisted with the Victims of Crime Act’s (VOCA) services in Wisconsin. At OCVS, I had the privilege of meeting with VOCA sub-grantees to learn about their experiences, challenges, and concerns with their services and funding. I helped plan the next step in a project coordinated by an intra-office collaboration with OCVS and the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Information and Analysis (BJIA). This project was launched in 2017 under a federal grant to encourage state VOCA offices to collaborate with their state’s Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) to examine data usage in VOCA grant reporting. My role on the project included reviewing reports from focus groups about VOCA grant reporting conducted by the VOCA-SAC and conducting an exploratory qualitative analysis of narrative data from sub-grantee reports. My work was exciting because OCVS has never had the capacity to take a deep dive into data analysis, so I had a great deal of freedom and flexibility to explore the information available to me. I also participated in an intensive needs assessment for the VOCA team, where I assisted with initial planning and research for preparing the needs assessment.
I worked for the Chicago-based office of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a nonprofit organization that focuses on community and economic development. My main responsibility was to help implement the 12th Annual Hoops in the Hood Cross-City Tournament. Hoops in the Hood is a basketball program designed to literally take back the streets from violence. Throughout the summer, 15 neighborhood partners host basketball games where the community can enjoy food, basketball, and various other activities. The Cross-City Tournament is the cultivation of these games, hosted in downtown Chicago. I also helped with the Cubs Charities Diamond Project, which allowed me to use the policy analysis skills I learned at the La Follette School. Based on the organization’s goals and funding criteria, I visited, evaluated, and recommended organizations seeking financial support from the organization While my internship was more about program implementation than policy analysis, I was able to apply what I learned throughout my first year at La Follette – demonstrating how versatile a public policy degree really is. My internship experience was a great out-of-school learning experience, and I truly enjoyed every minute.
As a program and policy analyst , I conducted two research projects on topics related to child care licensing, reviewed procedures related to the Child Care and Development Block Grant, and developed tools to aid departmental compliance with federal caregiver background check requirements. My primary research project was an analysis of unregulated child care complaint data in Wisconsin from 2013 to 2017. I analyzed this data using Excel and Tableau to examine trends in the number of complaints of unregulated illegal care and rates of substantiation by year and licensing region. Based on my findings, I developed policy alternatives to increase parental awareness of the risks of unregulated illegal care as well as parental ability to identify illegal care. I conducted informational interviews to learn about the other bureaus within the Division of Early Care and Education, and I accompanied a licensing specialist on a site visit, which was performed to ensure compliance with child-care program regulations.
I was a summer associate for the House Office of the Legislative Counsel (HOLC), which provides nonpartisan, impartial, and confidential legislative drafting services for the committees and members of the House of Representatives. HOLC attorneys work with clients to understand their policy preferences and implement them through clear, concise, and legally effective legislative language. Nearly all measures introduced in the House of Representatives are drafted by HOLC attorneys. As a summer associate, I participated in HOLC’s new-hire mentoring program where I was assigned a mentor and drafting projects. Over the course of 10 weeks, I worked on more than 20 drafting projects. This exposed me to legislative drafting and the challenges of writing effective, legally enforceable legislative language that satisfies client policy goals. While HOLC attorneys do not make policy decisions, working with clients to understand and express their policies was a unique experience that allowed me to take advantage of my education at the La Follette School and the UW Law School.
I worked as a management & program analyst in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), an independent office dedicated to fighting fraud, waste, and abuse in all aspects of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). I was assigned to the auditing branch of OIG, where I worked in the Acquisitions and Procurement Division. I assisted with an audit of DOT’s use of real property, with a specific focus on the use and misuse of office space. Although OIG audits typically take a year to complete, my team advanced through multiple phases during my three-month internship. This was possible because the project manager treated me as an equal member of the audit team, giving me real projects and assignments to complete. Having this authentic experience as a program auditor was extremely rewarding. Throughout the summer, I developed my writing and public speaking skills while thinking critically about the challenges facing our audit. I drafted official audit documents, presented key findings to senior OIG officials, and investigated the validity of evidence provided by the auditees. Overall, my experience was nothing short of excellent. Because my internship was a pathways position, I may have the opportunity to further my professional career with the OIG in the near future.
I interned at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a media agency independent of the U.S. government. The BBG’s mission is to broadcast news to areas where governments control the media. Although the U.S. government funds the BBG, the government does not have any editorial oversight on what the organization publishes overseas. One of my primary tasks was acting as a liaison between Voice of America (VOA)-Africa division and the office of policy and research. The Africa division focuses on providing services spoken in certain regions—Swahili, French, Hausa, and Portuguese. I met with each language service within the Africa division and drafted questions to ask the producers, slingers, and technology experts to gauge their trajectory and propose a budget for whatever changes they wanted to implement to their programs. In the era of fake news, VOA sought a fact-checking service specific for its audience and target countries. BBG interns and I compiled an in-depth report on current fact-checking services, analyzed their techniques and editorial methods, and provided BBG with best practices to create its own fact-checking tool. The amount of knowledge I have retained on political and bureaucratic systems have never been more exemplified; my internship experience resembled textbook examples of how a gridlock system holds us back from moving forward and how policy is all around us, especially when we least expect it.City of Madison Finance Department
ACLU
Downtown Madison, Inc.
City of Madison, Parks Division, Office of Finance and Administration
UW-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Issue One
Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Office of Children’s Mental Health
Bard College Berlin
Government Accountability Office
Fundación En Vía
Madison Metropolitan School District, Research & Program Evaluation Office
U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy, Counter Narcotics Division
Chicago Council on Global Affairs
We International Inc.
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economics Research Service (ERS)
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Wisconsin State Legislature
Wisconsin Department of Justice, Office of Crime Victims Services
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, Bureau of Early Care Regulation
House Office of the Legislative Counsel
U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Inspector General
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Internship Summaries 2018