Check out this video starring the very first class of DMI Scholars at the 2007 Summer Institute! It will give you a good idea of what our intensive “Public Policy 101” training is all about from the Scholars’ perspective.
Scholars Successes Stories
• Chloe Mirzayi, recently featured in the Saint Paul Pioneer-Press, will intern with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force this summer in New York City.
• Teresa Cheng, under a grant from the University of Southern California, will research organizing efforts by low-wage Chinese workers in San Gabriel Valley, California.
• Rakim Brooks, a student at Brown University, will attend Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
• Joe Taranto has worked at the New York Immigration Coalition since DMI Scholars placed him as an intern there the summer of 2007.
• Joseph Thomas, who worked as an intern in the office of Senator Patrick Leahy, now works as staff assistant in the Senate Judiciary Committee. He won the Elmer Nicholson Achievement Prize for a student likely to leave an impact in their field of interest.
• Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, a 2009 Truman Scholar, coauthored Forty More Years with political consultant James Carville. She worked as deputy press secretary for the Democratic National Committee.
• Samantha Contreras led a phone bank against Proposition 6 leading up to the 2008 general election. She previously conducted research for Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti, focusing on public safety, immigration, and homelessness.
• Reem Rahman will begin a Master’s in Management at Oxford University in the fall.
• Francisco Covarrubias was accepted to the Public Policy International Affairs (PPIA) program at the Goldman School for Public Policy at UC Berkeley.
