—Jennifer Sommer, interned with a congressman on Capitol Hill
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“It helped me refocus my interests, and hone in on what exactly I was interested in doing.” —Cassandra Chen, interned in San Francisco’s Department of Housing and Homelessness |
| “It was really nice to have the practicum to be able to experience Chicago in a completely different way. … Not only was I going to work, but I was really doing meaningful work.” —Sonia Hart, interned at Domestic Violence Legal Clinic in Chicago |
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“I have a lot better sense since doing the Field Studies program of what the real world is like.” —Diana Levy, interned at Red Cross in San Francisco |
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“Being in D.C. this summer, I could finally be part of that policy-making process that I’d been studying.” —Molly Day, interned at U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. |
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| “I became networked with so many people, not just at the place I worked at but in different companies.” —Brandon Nelson, interned at ABN Amro Bank in Chicago |
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“It launched what is an area of passionate interest for me. … It was by far the best quarter that I spent.” —David Kane, interned at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco |
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| “What I learned within ten weeks at the Urban Institute really has shaped my final year of undergraduate and I think has shaped my general trajectory.” —Kristen Ounanian, research intern at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. |
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“The most attractive part of this program is that you’re working and enrolled in school at the same time, able to really think critically about what you’re doing and where your work fits into the larger scheme of things.” —David Fine, interned at a San Francisco energy company in corporate philanthropy |
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“Having this internship experience has made me a lot more confident that I can go out and find a job someday and do it and do it well and bring something to the field.” —Rachel Patten, interned at Chicago’s department of environment |