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Civic engagement is a core value for me. I have always aspired to help the communities I’m from.” Mazaher Kaila, a Maxwell alumna and third-year student at Syracuse University's College of Law, moved with her family from Sudan to Central New York when she was four years old. “I realized that to make meaningful change in society, I needed to understand the systems that power it—government and politics—and that’s insight I would gain by studying political science.”
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Internship in DC Solidifies Undergrad’s Aspiration for a Career in Government
December 6, 2022
While working as an intern with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., earlier this year, political science major Gina Tette assisted in research for the criminal case against Guy Wesley Reffitt, the first defendant to be tried for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Tette transcribed recordings of Reffitt that were made by his son and used as evidence in the case. “It definitely made me want to go into prosecution,” says Tette, who is in her junior year of undergraduate studies at the Maxwell School. “I was seeing my work reflected in indictments. It was big stuff.”
This and other unique experiential opportunities afforded through the Maxwell-in-Washington program not only solidified Tette’s interest in pursuing a legal career but also brought into focus her aspiration to return to Washington, D.C., for a career in government.
“Washington is an amazing city. I’d love to work for the U.S. Attorney’s Office or really any unit in the Department of Justice,” she says. “This program is one of the most important experiences I’ve had and one of the most formative overall in helping me decide what I want to do in my career.”
Published in the Fall 2022 issue of the Maxwell Perspective
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Internship in DC Solidifies Undergrad’s Aspiration for a Career in Government
December 6, 2022
While working as an intern with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., earlier this year, political science major Gina Tette assisted in research for the criminal case against Guy Wesley Reffitt, the first defendant to be tried for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Tette transcribed recordings of Reffitt that were made by his son and used as evidence in the case. “It definitely made me want to go into prosecution,” says Tette, who is in her junior year of undergraduate studies at the Maxwell School. “I was seeing my work reflected in indictments. It was big stuff.”
This and other unique experiential opportunities afforded through the Maxwell-in-Washington program not only solidified Tette’s interest in pursuing a legal career but also brought into focus her aspiration to return to Washington, D.C., for a career in government.
“Washington is an amazing city. I’d love to work for the U.S. Attorney’s Office or really any unit in the Department of Justice,” she says. “This program is one of the most important experiences I’ve had and one of the most formative overall in helping me decide what I want to do in my career.”
Published in the Fall 2022 issue of the Maxwell Perspective
Washington, D.C., is home to a thriving academic program and the greatest concentration of Maxwell School alumni outside of New York. Read their stories.
Amy McKeever ’06 is a full-time senior writer and editor for National Geographic.
The executive assistant chief of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department is pursuing an executive master’s degree in Maxwell’s D.C. program.
Andy Paladino ’18 B.A. (Geog) pairs geolocation information with vision data and other software to provide analytics for commercial and government clients.
Graduate student Heather Fischer is the senior advisor for human rights crimes at Thomson Reuters Special Services.
Hugo Brousset ’13 works with the World Bank’s Partnership for Economic Inclusion, focusing on social protection with a global scope.
Teena Curry '07 M.P.A. is now a private enterprise office for USAID and says her Maxwell courses and humanitarian work with the Peace Corps prepared her for the public service role.
Zuleika Rivera ’15 B.A. (PSc/PSt) is the LGBTI program officer for the D.C.-based International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights.
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