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2011 Summer Semester Interns
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Andrea Abergel
Andrea is a fourth year undergraduate at the University of California, Davis majoring in Political Science and Psychology. She will be receiving her Bachelor of Arts degrees in this spring. She plans on attending law school to pursue a law degree and work in child advocacy in the future.
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Angela Clark
Angela was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. This fall she will be entering her final year of law school at the University of Miami. Currently, she is one of two Juvenile Justice Policy interns at CDF.
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Biljana Milenkovic
B has been in visual storytelling for a decade, first in Serbia and for the past several years in the United States. B holds a B.A. in film and media arts from American University.
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Chandra Plowden
Chandra Plowden is a Diversity of Views and Experiences Fellow at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She earned two Bachelors’ of Arts in English and Political Science at Columbia College in Columbia, SC.
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David Knight
David graduated from Dartmouth College in 2010 with a degree in history. At CDF, David is an intern with the Education Policy Team, focusing on accountability and equity in Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization and the implications for under-served youth populations.
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Emma Kenyon
Hailing from the great city of St. Louis, Emma just completed her sophomore year at Smith College where she is majoring in Government and minoring in History. This summer she is working in Communications Department and is excited to learn as much as she can.
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Erica Harrison
Erica is a native of Athens, Ga., and an alumna of Hampton University. Erica will finish her final year of a dual degree law and policy program at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government in May 2012.
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Jamila Davis
Jamila is a senior at Spelman College majoring in Political Science and minoring in Sociology. Prior to interning with CDF, Jamila interned on Capitol Hill and worked at the Kennedy Krieger PACT Nursery in Baltimore. Jamila also spent a semester in Ghana where she volunteered at Beacon House Orphanage.
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Melissa Dahlin
Melissa holds a B.A. in History from the University of California, Irvine, where she also completed her coursework for the California teaching credential. She spent one year at King’s College, London as a study-abroad student in the history department. For five years, she lived in Taiwan and taught English to children of all ages.
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Michael McGarrah
Michael is a student of Developmental Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He will enter his senior year this fall and has begun researching executive function in young children.
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Molly Carey
Molly Carey is currently a third year law student at Notre Dame Law School. She is from Wheaton, Illinois and obtained her undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Sidney Hilker
This fall Sidney will be a sophomore at Harvard University. She studies government and global health with plans to attend medical school and eventually combine her interests in medicine and global affairs. She currently serves as the Health Policy intern.
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Valin Jordan
Upon completing her Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of Miami, Valin Jordan began working as an elementary special education teacher in East Harlem, NY through New York City Teaching Fellows. While teaching, Valin earned 2 masters degrees from CUNY Hunter College in Elementary Education and Special Education with a focus on learning disabilities.
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Xiaoge Zhang
Xiaoge Zhang completed a dual degree in Bachelor of Law in International Politics from Huazhong Normal University, and Bachelor of Economics in Economics from Wuhan University, both in Wuhan, China. While an undergraduate, she founded the first long-term tutoring program for Chinese migrant workers’ children, whose education suffered as their families moved from city to city in search of work.
2011 Spring Semester Interns
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Amy Novak
Amy Lange Novak has over 10 years of professional experience in the education arena. After earning her bachelor’s degree in elementary/special education from Bellarmine University, she spent four years teaching in the Louisville public education school system, working in a self-contained unit for children with learning and behavior disorders.
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Edika Onubah
Edika Onubah is a senior speech language pathology and audiology major earning a Bachelor of Science degree at Howard University.
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Iman Mostafa
Iman is an intern with the Office of the President at the Children’s Defense Fund and a social work major at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
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Kim Dancy
Kim Dancy graduated from the University of Michigan in 2010 and plans to attend George Washington University in the fall to study public policy.
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Lauren Collier
Lauren Collier is a junior at American University majoring in sociology with a minor in special education. Before interning at CDF she worked in a Washington, D.C., charter school’s special education department and later as a one on one verbal behavior therapist.
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Lauren Outlaw
Lauren is in her final semester at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law and is interning in the early childhood division of the policy department.
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Lisa Coleman
After graduating from University of Missouri-Columbia, Lisa was a Teach for America high school teacher in Charlotte, N.C. Lisa is currently a third year law student at the American University Washington College of Law.
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Micah Chervin
Micah Chervin will graduate this May from the University of Maryland with Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and Jewish studies. While participating in UMD's Federal Semester program, with a concentration in health policy, Micah learned under former Assistant U.S. Surgeon General Woodie Kessel.
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Natalie Cone
Natalie is currently a graduating senior at Howard University with a major in communications and culture and a minor in community development.
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Noora Majid
Noora Majid is currently a junior majoring in community health with a minor in neuroscience at the University of Maryland, College Park. Noora works as a part-time vision therapist in a pediatric optometrist’s office, where she witnesses many situations that force parents to end treatment due to lack of insurance coverage.
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Valerie Caplan
Valerie Caplan is a sophomore at the University of Maryland majoring in government and politics and minoring in Italian language and international development and conflict management.
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Yorri Berry
Yorri attended Spelman College and received a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and African studies from Loyola University in New Orleans. She earned a Master of Arts in religion (ethics) from Howard University School of Divinity, and is an educational administration and policy graduate student at Howard as well.
2010 Interns
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Abigail Williams
Abigail Williams is currently completing her Masters of Social Work with a specialization in Children, Youth, and Family services at the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign.
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Amy Durfee West
Amy is interning with the Field Department at CDF. She is working on organizing a day of prayer for back-to-school.
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Anne Hyslop
Anne Hyslop is a graduate student at Georgetown Public Policy Institute, specializing in Education, Family, and Social Policy.
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Ashley Manning
After graduating from University of Maryland as an English major in 2006, Ashley Manning spent two years teaching high school English in Washington, DC as a Teach for America corps member.
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Emeralle Kirksey
Emeralle Kirksey is a rising senior at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2010, majoring in English with a minor in Political Science.
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Emmy Liss
Coming to CDF with experience in education, children’s issues and political consulting, Emmy is working as a Health Policy intern this summer.
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Eryn Gordon
Eryn Gordon is a Public Health Social Sciences major and Africana Studies minor at the Johns Hopkins University.
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Ginny Claire Kim
Ginny Claire Kim is an English major at the University of Virginia. She has been interested in volunteering since high school and wishes to deepen her understanding of political advocacy and human rights
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Grant MacQueen
Grant MacQueen is interning in the CDF’s K-12 Education Department, where he is researching zero tolerance policies in schools and their effects along racial lines as well as possible alternatives.
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Jamie Gilfix
Jamie Gilfix will be a senior at Pitzer College in Southern California in the fall of 2010. She is majoring in Psychology and is a member of Psi-Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology.
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Janine Weisenbeck
Janine is interning in the Early Education Policy Department, but is currently researching the educational programs that are provided to youth in the juvenile justice system
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Jennifer Williams
Jennifer is interning in the Child Welfare and Mental Health Department where she is currently reviewing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to identify provisions that will impact children in the child welfare system.
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Kendyl Tash
Kendyl is an Education Policy Intern, currently working on a report about the impact of cyber-bullying and promising practices to protect the safety of our students.
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Krystal Johnson
Krystal Johnson is currently a student at Charleston School of Law, interested in child advocacy.
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Lauren Glass
Lauren Glass first became interested in child advocacy after spending a year before entering college working at a school in South Africa.
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Leah Seifu
Leah Seifu is a rising senior at Harvard, where she is studying Human Evolutionary Biology with a secondary field in Health Policy and a citation in Spanish.
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Rachel Biblo
During her time at CDF, Rachel is interning in the Early Education Policy Department, where she is researching the history of Head Start and the Childcare and Development Block Grant.
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Timothy Hughes
Timothy interns in the Field Department where he assists with the Young Adult Leadership Training (YALT) Program.
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Yamilee Duroseau
Yamilee Duroseau is a rising senior at Brandeis University, where she is majoring in psychology. She is currently interning in the Field Department at CDF.
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