2015 First-Year Fellow: Vivian Jiang '18
October 14, 2015
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Sydney Walter '18 in front of The Charles Group, LLC office on her last week of work.
[more]The National Disability Institute (NDI) is dedicated to building a better economic future for people with disabilities and their families. It envisions an environment where people across the spectrum of disability have the same opportunities to achieve financial stability and independence as people without disabilities.
[more]DC Prep, where I worked as a First-Year Fellow this summer, is a network of charter schools committed to closing the educational divide in Washington DC. DC Prep achieves this goal by lengthening the school day, implementing standards-based instruction, employing targeted intervention, and assessing continuously. These tools have proven successful, as DC Prep has received the highest test scores for a public charter school in the DC area.
[more]The Truman Project, where I worked this summer, is a network of foreign policy professionals and veterans seeking to promote progressive national security policy based on shared values. Rather than using a traditional think-tank model, Truman uses a grassroots approach to influence policy. Truman relies primarily on its members – rather than staff – to come up with policy proposals. It facilitates implementation of these proposals by providing its members wit professional development, an off the record platform for networking, message guidance, and a host of other resources.
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