February 5, 2024Starr Vijolan-Bobelea Interns in Washington, DC

Starr Vijolan-Bobelea in Washington in Fall 2023.

Starr Vijolan-Bobelea, a fourth-year student majoring in Political Science, spent fall of 2023 in Washington DC with Ramapo’s DC internship program. We asked her a few questions about her experience:

Why did you decide to do a DC internship instead of one closer to home? I chose to pursue an internship in Washington, DC to participate in a type of study abroad program that is not as far as other forms of study abroad programs. In addition, as a political science major pursuing a future in the legal field, I was very intrigued to work in a public interest law firm. In the future, I would like to pursue a career in New York City, but for the time being, I wanted to get a sense of the work culture in our nation’s capital.

What were some of the challenges you faced in your internship? Adjusting to the distance from home was the biggest challenge I faced. Being my first time away from home, it took some getting used to being away from my family. However, this experience definitely gave me a sense of independence.

What did you do in DC outside of the classes and internships? Outside of classes and my internship obligations, I attended numerous networking events and explored many of DC’s museums.

Would you recommend this for other Ramapo students? I would definitely recommend this program to other Ramapo students, regardless of their field of study. I believe that there is something for everyone in Washington, DC, and it is a beautiful, productive city to gain working experience.

Ramapo’s Washington DC internship program is not just for political science majors. If you or are your students are interested in contact Prof. Jeremy Teigen (B211) or check out www.wiidc.org/ramapo

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November 9, 2022Ramapo Represents at the Student Conference on United States Affairs!

Professor of Political Science Jeremy Teigen was invited to be a Co-Chair at the Student Conference on US Affairs, or “SCUSA.” Ramapo also sent two student delegates, Matthew Wisneski and Hannah Scroggins (pictured here). The event, hosted by the United States Military Academy at West Point, took place November 2-5, 2022. Around 180 students, half of them cadets at West Point and the other half being civilian delegates from colleges and universities from all over the country, assembled and were grouped into working teams to develop foreign policy briefs on various international challenges facing the US. Co-Chairs’ jobs included helping the student groups organize themselves, debate options, and eventually guide students to write and present a policy brief. The keynote speaker this year was United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield and this event’s theme was “American Foreign Policy in an Era of Polarized Politics and Revisionist Powers.”

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September 28, 2022Kiely Paris-Rodriguez Presents at the National Collegiate Honors Conference

Kiely Paris-Rodriguez

Congratulations to Kiely Paris-Rodriguez who took part in the Honors Ethics Seminar taught by Lisa Cassidy on “Ethic, Biotechnology and the Family.” In November Kiely will attend the National Collegiate Honors Conference in Dallas this Novemeber and will present a poster drawn from a paper done for the seminar. Entitled “Ethics of Sex Assignment Surgery on Intersex Infants,’ which “discusses the rush to assign a gender to infant and argues that infant sex assignment surgery should only be done when it is medically necessary in order to respect the future autonomy of the individual to decide what their body should look like.”

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