I am now in the same position as the people I looked up to and wished well as they graduated from Newhouse-land and went off into the world this time last year… Say what? How did I get here? Why did two years go by so fast? Did I accomplish everything I wanted before I leave? …
After a few months here in Washington, D.C. it’s become a routine for me to go to my internship and class like it’s my nine to five, forty-hour work week. I appreciate the semester and emphasis on the internship as a way to transition myself back into the real world, but I’m often left feeling like …
This semester has been tough, and I admit that I am overwhelmed most of the time. Leaving my internship during the week often leaves me feeling like a vegetable when I return to my apartment. The weekly night classes are also really starting to take their toll. I hadn’t been feeling like myself for a …
I’ve been interning with the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) for almost two months now. It’s been an interesting experience since I came into it without much prior international development knowledge except for the ethnographies studied in a Maxwell course last semester. I’ve settled in and have …
The 2016-2018 Public Diplomacy (PD) cohort had an amazing opportunity to work with the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) in January 2018. The cohort participated in a week-long journalism practicum experience where they met with journalists, human rights experts, news editors, policy experts, and people working with organizations that support journalism, freedom of expression …
Most of the books I’ve acquired over the past few years are still waiting for me to finish them. I always start out with the best intentions, though: I open a new book and eagerly finish the first few chapters as reading once again becomes my escape from reality. With each page turn, I immerse …
Last Friday, the U.S. government shutdown for three days. While most people watched the news and tried to understand what that meant for social security, federal employees, the military and the postal service, I braced myself for the possibility that I would not start my internship the upcoming Monday. A few hours later, an email …
There are only a few more hours left in 2017, and I’m not spending these exciting final hours making resolutions for the next year. That’s not to say that making resolutions is a bad thing, it’s just not my thing. For me, resolutions have always been presented as goals worth achieving with the expectation that …
Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised by the events hosted at Newhouse, even if I find out at the last minute as I’m strolling past a poster on a break from work. I could not miss the chance to engage with the live-in-living-color-black-girl magic of keynote speakers Johnetta Betsch Cole, Paula J. Giddings and Beverly Guy-Sheftall in …