Washington Seminar at Brigham Young University had another
successful summer. Spring and summer 2007 terms brought
with them forty-three well qualified student interns.
As a campus-wide internship program, the Washington Seminar
helps to place students in a variety of internships in
Washington, D.C. Washington Seminar student interns worked
in all three branches of the U.S. government, for elected
officials in both the Republican and the Democratic parties,
and in numerous non-profit and for-profit enterprises
in the private sector during the spring-summer 2007 semester.
The Executive branch was served by many
BYU interns. The US Departments of Treasury and Health
and Human Services, the Small Business Administration,
the Smithsonian, the Office of the Attorney General for
DC, and the National Defense University stood out among
the institutions.
The Judicial branch was represented by the
Federal Judicial Center which aids in training federal
judicial employees and doing further research for the
judicial branch. The Federal Judicial Center came in first
place in having the most BYU interns. They had five BYU
interns over the Spring/Summer and it looks like three
will be there this fall.
Congress was the most popular branch of
government with interns who served in the offices of US
Senators from Connecticut and Utah, as well as House Members
from Arizona, Idaho, Utah, and California including in
office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). The Senate
Judiciary Committee also served as the location for one
internship.
In other fields, the list of non-profit
organizations that interns worked for included the think-tank
American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the American Legislative
Exchange Council, Consource, and the Environmental Markets
Association; the March of Dimes, CAPPA, the media watchdog
group Media Research Center, the National Association
of Japan-America Societies, and the Mansfield and Heart
of America Foundations. Other students represented the
for-profit sector working for consulting groups, law firms,
marketing groups, and media groups. Washington Seminar
students continue to work for a diverse number of organizations
and have excelled in their respective internships.
Washington Seminar Internships:
American Enterprise Institute
American Legislative Exchange Council
Bomstein Agency
CAPPA (Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association)
Environmental Markets Association
Federal Judicial Center
Heart of America Foundation
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
International Business-Government Counsellors
Management Options Inc.
March of Dimes
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
Media Research Center
National Association of Japan-America Societies
National Defense University
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
Rendon Group Inc.
Rep. Bill Sali (R-ID)
Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT)
Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA)
Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT)
Rosenau & Rosenau Law Offices
Schramm, Williams & Associates, Inc.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Senator Bob Bennett (R-UT)
Senator Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT)
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
The Constitutional Sources Project
The Smithsonian
U.S. Department of the Treasury
U.S. Small Business Administration
United Press International
