Zakaria Elkawa: My Summer with Climate Ready Boston
Zakaria Elkawa (CAS’24, Pardee’24) was our summer 2023 Climate Ready Boston Intern. Interested in this internship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. During my internship with the City of Boston Climate Ready Team, I found that Boston is moving in the right direction in leading the charge of urban-based climate […]
Andrea Catania: My Summer with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics
Andrea Catania (MET’24) was our summer 2023 Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM) Fellow. Interested in this fellowship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. In December 2022, I initially scrolled by a summer job posting for something called “the New Urban Mechanics,” believing it was probably meant for engineers […]
Valerie Sanchez Covaleda: My Summer with the City of Providence Office of Sustainability
By Valerie Sanchez Covaleda (CAS/CGS ’24). Valerie was the Initiative on Cities’ 2022 Providence, RI Justice Fellowship with the Office of Sustainability. The Providence Justice Fellowship through the BU Initiative on Cities (IOC) was a really informative experience that I am grateful to have had the opportunity to complete. As a junior pursuing law as […]
Cora Funke: My Summer with the City of Chelsea’s Open Data & Digital Communications Initiatives
By Cora Funke (KHC/CAS ’23). Cora was the Initiative on Cities’ 2022 City of Chelsea: Open Data & Digital Communications Initiatives Summer Fellow. Over the summer, I had the opportunity to work for the City of Chelsea for eight weeks through the BU Initiative on Cities. I worked closely with Cate Fox-Lent, who is the Business […]
Maggie Kormann: My Summer at the Boston Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity
By Maggie Kormann (CAS ’23). Maggie was the Initiative on Cities’ 2022 Boston Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity (MORRE) Summer Fellow. In our modern world riddled with climate disaster, pandemics, and war, local governments in progressive cities on the cutting edge of innovation and policy such as Boston need to ensure they are […]
Gloria Ampadu-Darko: Reflecting on My Experience as the 2021–2022 NLC Menino Fellow
By Gloria Ampadu-Darko The National League of Cities (NLC) Menino Fellowship was undoubtedly a very special experience for me. When I first came across the opportunity, I immediately jumped on it. I was ecstatic about everything the Fellowship offered. The chance to carry out a self-chosen, guided research project, the chance to intern at a […]
Gloria Ampadu-Darko: My Experience at the NLC Congressional City Conference
Gloria-Ampadu-Darko is a sophomore at BU and the 2021–22 NLC Menino Fellow. Applications for the 2022–23 Menino Fellowship are due on Sunday, April 24, 2022. On Monday March 14th, I had the absolute pleasure of attending the Congressional City Conference (CCC), an annual event hosted by the National League of Cities (NLC) to provide an […]
Avi Nguyen: Reflecting on my 2021 Fellowship with the Boston Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity
By Avi Nguyen (he/him) (Undergraduate, Political Science & Economics) This past summer I had the privilege of working for the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity (MORRE) through a BU Initiative on Cities (IOC) and Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground (HTC) fellowship. Most of my responsibilities within the MORRE team revolved around my […]
An Pham: Reflecting on my 2021 Summer Fellowship with the City of Chelsea
By An Pham (Undergraduate, Economics & Mathematics, Kilachand Honors College) This summer, I worked with the City of Chelsea as an IOC undergraduate Open Data Intern. I worked with Cate Fox-Lent, my supervisor, on a project to start Chelsea’s new Open Data Hub, where I got to process and curate city data for the public […]
Deep Patel: Reflecting on my 2021 Fellowship with the Boston Mayor’s Office of Policy and Planning
By Deep Patel (Undergraduate, Economics and Political Science, Kilachand Honors College) This past summer, I was given the opportunity to work as an IOC undergraduate fellow and public policy intern at the Mayor’s Office of Policy and Planning. In this department at Boston City Hall, a dedicated team of diverse and bright minds from across […]