Campbell Taylor: My Summer with the City of Boston Planning Advisory Council
Working with the City of Boston Planning Advisory Council (PAC) team this past summer was an incredible and transformative experience. I thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with the Planners and experts across other departments at City Hall, learning from their expertise on Boston’s neighborhoods and needs. This summer was a particularly exciting time to join the PAC […]
Levi Chen: My Summer with the City of Boston Office of Climate Resilience
To me, communication is one of those things that’s so prevalent in our day-to-day lives that we forget just how important it is. We want to know what’s going on in the world around us, but there can often be a disconnect between those who have that information and those who want it. When we’re […]
Nayeli Quiles: My Summer with the City of Boston Equity & Inclusion Cabinet
This past summer, I had the privilege of serving as a Racial Justice fellow with the City of Boston’s Equity and Inclusion Cabinet. My interest in this internship stemmed from some of my past experiences working in City Hall and with a variety of elected officials in Massachusetts, as my most interesting and fulfilling work […]
Corryn Barter: My Summer with the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM)
When looking for summer internships to complete my practicum, I was drawn to opportunities that focused on improving community health. The recent changes to public health funding greatly impacted the ability of many organizations to offer internships, especially those that provide public services. When I found the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM) summer […]
Tammy Dong: Reflecting on my 2023–2024 NLC Menino Fellowship
The Menino Fellowship has been an amazing experience and widened my perspective on the work done by municipal leaders across the country. During the 2023-2024 school year, I was a senior finishing my degree in International Relations. I hadn’t taken any classes in urban policy before, so the research that I did during the course […]
Amie Thomas: My Summer with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics
Amie Thomas (GRS’24) was the 2024 Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics Summer Fellow. Interested in this fellowship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. Like many forward-thinking students, come the end of the fall semester, I needed to decide on what my plans for the summer would be. With […]
Roshan Sivaraman: My Summer with the City of Boston’s Office of Climate Resilience (Climate Ready Boston)
Roshan Sivaraman (CFA, Pardee ’26) was the 2024 City of Boston Climate Ready Boston Intern. Interested in this internship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. This summer, I had the privilege of working as a Summer Intern at the City of Boston’s Office of Climate Resilience (formerly known as […]
Alexandria McKenzie: My Summer with the City of Boston’s Equity & Inclusion Cabinet
Alexandria McKenzie (CAS ’26) was the 2024 City of Boston Equity & Inclusion Cabinet Summer Intern. Interested in this internship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. Reflecting on my time at City Hall, I see a summer full of creativity, innovation, and new insights and perspectives. I was honored […]
An Pham: Reflecting on my 2022–2023 NLC Menino Fellowship
I had a fantastic experience being the 2022–2023 National League of Cities Menino Fellow. I went in with a summer’s experience from another IOC Fellowship, half of an economics degree, and scattered convictions about cities. I’m leaving as a staunch urbanist after exploring those convictions and finding names for the ones that made sense by […]
Destiny Perkins: My Summer with the Boston Equity & Inclusion Cabinet
Destiny Perkins (Pardee’25) was our summer 2023 Boston Equity & Inclusion Cabinet Intern. Interested in this internship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. I spent this past summer in the City of Boston’s Office for Equity and Inclusion as a Racial Justice Fellow with Lori Nelson’s Racial Justice Office. […]