{"id":231,"date":"2017-10-17T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-political-science\/burlon-2\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T21:46:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:46:55","slug":"burlon-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/aftermacalester\/burlon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Internships: Bridges to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/589\/2011\/06\/burlon-1.jpg\" alt=\"Burlon\" title=\"Burlon\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Federico Burlon \u201910<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Rosario, Argentina<br><br>International Studies, Political Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">After Mac: London School of Economics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Macalester\u2019s setting, halfway between the downtowns of St. Paul and Minneapolis, provides great access to internships. In my four years at Mac, I interned with several organizations, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Grassroots Solutions, and The Advocates for Human Rights. Since graduation, I have gone on to the master\u2019s program in human rights at the London School of Economics, and my internships were instrumental in this plan for my future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I interned with the Community Affairs program of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. There I researched home ownership patterns on American Indian reservations in Minnesota and surrounding states. I continued working with my supervisor after the internship to co-author an article that was published in the Bank\u2019s Community Dividend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following summer I interned at Grassroots Solutions, a firm in Minneapolis that provides consulting services in the areas of organizing and advocacy. I worked on climate change and sustainable food issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At The Advocates for Human Rights Refugee and Immigrant Program, I worked with asylum seekers and immigrants in deportation proceedings. As I learned about asylum and deportation processes, I met attorneys and advocates who work on issues that I am passionate about.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Burlon \u201910 Rosario, Argentina International Studies, Political Science After Mac: London School of Economics Macalester\u2019s setting, halfway between the downtowns of St. Paul and Minneapolis, provides great access to internships. In my four years at Mac, I interned with several organizations, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Grassroots Solutions, and The Advocates for [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":232,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/1619"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}