SUMMER 2009 MOAKLEY FELLOWS

A PUBLIC POLICY/MANAGEMENT INTERN PROGRAM, WASHINGTON, D.C.

The Center for Public Management is pleased to announce its Summer 2009, Washington, D.C. Moakley Fellows’ Public Policy and Public Management Internships in the fine public service tradition of former Massachusetts Congressman and Suffolk alumnus, John Joseph Moakley.

The Moakley Fellows program, jointly cosponsored by the Center for Public Management and the Public Management Department, is open to graduate students matriculating in the MPA or MPA joint degree programs.

A graduate student awarded a Moakley Fellow receives a paid 10 week summer internship totaling $5,000 in salary and expenses in a key Washington public policy-making office, beginning on or about June 4, 2009 and ending on or about August 10, 2009. (Dates may vary according to placement office).

Moakley Fellows participating in the 2008 program worked: in the office of Congressman Stephen Lynch; on Senator Edward Kennedy’s Health Education and Labor (HELP) Committee; at Capitol Associates, a bipartisan health, nonprofit and education government relations firm; and with WolfBlock, a large national lobbying firm.   Marisela Zapata described her 2008 Moakley Fellowship as “...an exciting front row seat on how public policy really happens—great networking and career opportunities. You can’t get this experience in Boston!”
 
To participate in the Fellows program, a student submits to the following three (3) step process:

1. Application for the Fellowship, which must include the following information:       
1. A cover letter stating: the reasons you seek this internship; what public service areas interest you most; and your first and second choice of the Fellowships available.
2. A resume
3. A statement of 500-1000 words that describes an issue or issues you would be interested in working on during the summer, why the issue interests you and some preliminary thoughts on a project for the summer.
4. A writing sample of two-five pages from any work that represents your ability to analyze critically complex policy or public service management issues.
2. Interview for the Fellowship, before the Moakley Fellows Committee Program finalists selected from the applications will be interviewed by the Committee composed of Mike Lavin, Chairman, Public Management Department; Sandy Matava, Director, Center for Public Management; Linda Melconian, Director, Washington Seminar and Moakley Fellows program, and William O’Neill, Dean of Sawyer Business School.
3. Phone Interview with Placement Office Following its interview of the finalists, the Moakley Fellows’ Committee will inform      students who have been nominated for a Moakley Fellow award.

Final acceptance will be determined via phone interview with placement office before Fellowship is actually awarded. Recipients of a Moakley Fellowship are required:  

1. TO REGISTER for PAD 858 Internship in Public Management to fulfill the requirements of that course (a minimum of 300 hours with the Moakley Fellow placement) with no credits and no tuition; or PAD 859 Internship in Public Management to fulfill the requirements with 3 graduate credits and tuition.(See Sandy Matava)
2. TO AUDIT (NON REGISTRATION) PAD 811 Politics of the Federal Bureaucracy: attend five Suffolk campus classes and participate in the Washington Seminar component of the course on June 1, 2 3, 2009 before commencing the internship. (Pay the fee of $750 for Washington Seminar only). If students wish to earn 3 graduate credits, then they need to register for the course and pay the tuition fee plus the $750.00 for Washington Seminar (See Linda Melconian)
3. SIGN a statement committed to maintain Office Confidentiality and to MEET the ENTIRE term of the paid, full-time internship.

For more information, contact Linda Melconian, lmelconi@suffolk.edu or Sandy Matava mmatava@suffolk.edu