Washington Internships. Deirdre Martinez

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СКАЧАТЬ for example, you can ask to be assigned to the President's office, which will provide great exposure to nonprofit management. You might instead choose an assignment with its health or juvenile justice divisions, where your work will likely be more directly related to policy-making.

      At a think tank, you may be assigned to a particular scholar whose area of expertise matches your area of interest or you may find yourself working for the editor of their journal. You are likely to spend some time completing administrative tasks, and you may also be asked to write short articles or one-pagers that are posted to their website or published in their journal, perhaps even coauthoring a research article with a scholar whose work you admire.

       The People You'll Meet

      These groups frequently work in coalition with one another and often socialize together. As on the Hill there are opportunities to attend briefings, receptions, and lunch events. You may work with top names in your field if you are working for one of the better-known groups. Even if you're working in a smaller organization, opportunities to meet interesting people should abound.

       What You'll Get

      This is an excellent choice for a student who wants to work on a particular issue area, such as children's health, foreign policy, or minority issues. This sort of internship experience could lead to full-time work with an advocacy organization. While many individuals continue their work in advocacy organizations, others use their advocacy experience to move into positions in Congress or in one of the federal agencies. My experience is an excellent example. Early in my career, I was a policy analyst at National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic advocacy organization. While my focus was poverty policy, I was particularly interested in employment policy, and since NCLR didn't have an employment project at the time, I was able to add that to my area of expertise. As a result I was part of NCLR's advocacy campaign on the issue of worker retraining needs during congressional consideration of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). I made an impression on Congressman Becerra's legislative assistant, with whom I met to discuss NCLR's position on NAFTA, and when he decided to go back to graduate school, he suggested I consider becoming Congressman Becerra's legislative assistant for education and labor. I was offered the position and within two years I was Congressman Becerra's legislative director. This trajectory is not uncommon in Washington, where people change jobs within two years and there's always a more interesting job around the corner.

      As for the pros and cons of working in a large think tank versus a small advocacy organization, two students who were in small advocacy organizations last summer had this to say:

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