Tammy Dong: Reflecting on my 2023–2024 NLC Menino Fellowship
The Menino Fellowship has been an amazing experience and widened my perspective on the work done by municipal leaders across the country. During the 2023-2024 school year, I was a senior finishing my degree in International Relations. I hadn’t taken any classes in urban policy before, so the research that I did during the course […]
Amie Thomas: My Summer with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics
Amie Thomas (GRS’24) was the 2024 Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics Summer Fellow. Interested in this fellowship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. Like many forward-thinking students, come the end of the fall semester, I needed to decide on what my plans for the summer would be. With […]
Roshan Sivaraman: My Summer with the City of Boston’s Office of Climate Resilience (Climate Ready Boston)
Roshan Sivaraman (CFA, Pardee ’26) was the 2024 City of Boston Climate Ready Boston Intern. Interested in this internship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. This summer, I had the privilege of working as a Summer Intern at the City of Boston’s Office of Climate Resilience (formerly known as […]
Alexandria McKenzie: My Summer with the City of Boston’s Equity & Inclusion Cabinet
Alexandria McKenzie (CAS ’26) was the 2024 City of Boston Equity & Inclusion Cabinet Summer Intern. Interested in this internship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. Reflecting on my time at City Hall, I see a summer full of creativity, innovation, and new insights and perspectives. I was honored […]
An Pham: Reflecting on my 2022–2023 NLC Menino Fellowship
I had a fantastic experience being the 2022–2023 National League of Cities Menino Fellow. I went in with a summer’s experience from another IOC Fellowship, half of an economics degree, and scattered convictions about cities. I’m leaving as a staunch urbanist after exploring those convictions and finding names for the ones that made sense by […]
Destiny Perkins: My Summer with the Boston Equity & Inclusion Cabinet
Destiny Perkins (Pardee’25) was our summer 2023 Boston Equity & Inclusion Cabinet Intern. Interested in this internship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. I spent this past summer in the City of Boston’s Office for Equity and Inclusion as a Racial Justice Fellow with Lori Nelson’s Racial Justice Office. […]
Zakaria Elkawa: My Summer with Climate Ready Boston
Zakaria Elkawa (CAS’24, Pardee’24) was our summer 2023 Climate Ready Boston Intern. Interested in this internship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. During my internship with the City of Boston Climate Ready Team, I found that Boston is moving in the right direction in leading the charge of urban-based climate […]
Andrea Catania: My Summer with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics
Andrea Catania (MET’24) was our summer 2023 Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM) Fellow. Interested in this fellowship? Click here to learn more about our summer internship & fellowship offerings. In December 2022, I initially scrolled by a summer job posting for something called “the New Urban Mechanics,” believing it was probably meant for engineers […]
Valerie Sanchez Covaleda: My Summer with the City of Providence Office of Sustainability
By Valerie Sanchez Covaleda (CAS/CGS ’24). Valerie was the Initiative on Cities’ 2022 Providence, RI Justice Fellowship with the Office of Sustainability. The Providence Justice Fellowship through the BU Initiative on Cities (IOC) was a really informative experience that I am grateful to have had the opportunity to complete. As a junior pursuing law as […]
Cora Funke: My Summer with the City of Chelsea’s Open Data & Digital Communications Initiatives
By Cora Funke (KHC/CAS ’23). Cora was the Initiative on Cities’ 2022 City of Chelsea: Open Data & Digital Communications Initiatives Summer Fellow. Over the summer, I had the opportunity to work for the City of Chelsea for eight weeks through the BU Initiative on Cities. I worked closely with Cate Fox-Lent, who is the Business […]