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Read more In my role this summer, I learned to ask for opportunities whenever possible, and I took away the importance of building trust for effective public management and the crucial part that the private sector plays in supporting small governments.
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Read more This past year, I have worked as a graduate policy fellow at the University of Wisconsin System administration. My top takeaways from the internship were learning how to draft policies that balance clarity with audit feasibility, seeing how unpredictable policy …
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Read more This summer, I interned in the Kaufman Lab for the Study of Food Systems and Marketplaces, which I was placed with through the Institute for Research on Poverty. The Kaufman Lab is a social science lab housed in UW–Madison’s Department …
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Read more My internship with the City of Milwaukee, Office of Mayor Cavalier Johnson gave me a great introduction to local government and the different roles a policy team plays. I worked on projects related to gun violence prevention, open data, and …
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Read more My experience as a research assistant with the Climate Action Lab taught me how academic research is conducted and its effects on policymaking and policy analysis. I spent the summer working primarily on a project examining the geographic and sectoral …
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I was able to use my La Follette Experience to apply policy memo and presentation format from PUB 873 policy analysis course. For policy analysis and recommendation and for qualitative analysis and statics
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