UW-Madison Office of Sustainability

Internship Location: Madison WI

Organization Type: Nonprofit

Policy Areas: Environmental, Social Justice

In this internship, I learned how to make progress on projects dealing with environmental and social sustainability while working in a higher education context. I learned how the work at the office is affected by federal, state, and local policy and how students, university administration, and departments interact with each other within their work. I have used many of the skills that I have learned in my La Follette coursework in my internship. For example, my coursework has taught me how to take a variety of perspectives into account when making decisions and how to evaluate the unintended consequences of every well-intended action. I would absolutely recommend this internship to future students because the work that I was able to do was very fulfilling. It helped me to understand what a career in the intersection of sustainability and policy could look like through field trips, projects, and events that I wouldn’t have been able to be a part of otherwise.