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  • 2015 First-Year Fellow: Andrew Wolff '18

    September 25, 2015

    As a First-Year Fellow, I worked at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC)'s Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative (FRRI). The initiative seeks to provide recommendations that are not based on any ideological or partisan shortcuts. As my mentor explained, the FRRI aims to gather research and testimony from all interested parties and publish recommendations that are based on a reasonable and thoughtful set of facts (albeit in a world where objective facts do not exist). When the debate over financial regulatory reform proceeds from these basic set of facts, then the FRRI’s goal is achieved.

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  • 2015 First-Year Fellow: Abhishek Bhargava '18

    September 24, 2015

    This past summer, I worked at the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Policy & Analysis (OP & A). The Smithsonian Institution’s mission is to increase knowledge and inspire learning about nature and culture through outstanding research, collections, exhibitions, and education in support of a sustainable future. Within the Smithsonian Institution, the OP & A serves as a medium for museum improvement by conducting research, evaluations, and needs assessments for the various clients both in and outside the Institution.

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  • 2015 First-Year Fellow: Abhilasha Gokulan '18

    September 22, 2015

    This summer, I had the privilege of working at the Center for Perinatal Advocacy at Providence Hospital under the mentorship of Gabriela Garcia ’01. The Center for Perinatal Advocacy was established in 2010 with the mission of working towards decreasing infant mortality within high-risk communities in the DC metropolitan area. The goal of the Center for Perinatal Advocacy is to educate, advocate, and serve mothers and their infants through strategies focused on breastfeeding, car seats, and safe sleep.

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  • The Rockefeller Center's Annual Student and Alumni Reception

    August 3, 2015

    On Thursday, June 18, 2015, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center hosted its annual Student and Alumni Reception in Washington, DC. Each year the occasion provides an opportunity for the Center’s First-Year Fellows, newly arrived to the city and ready to embark on their 8-week summer internships, to meet and network with their Dartmouth Alumni mentors. 

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  • DC Summer Interns Witness the Announcement of Landmark Supreme Court Decision

    July 23, 2015

    I am currently a rising sophomore at Dartmouth College, spending the summer in Washington, DC, as an intern in the press office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Along with 22 other students, I am part of Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center First Year Fellows program, which sponsors summer internships in DC for students interested in careers in public policy.

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