Positions open up all year so please contact us to find out what is available. This list is not an exhaustive list of all the fellowships/internships.

• Department of Agriculture
• Citizens United
• Department of Commerce
• Department of Health & Human Services
• The Heritage Foundation
• House Sergeant at Arms/Capitol Hill Police
• Human Events
• Association of Former Intelligence Officers
• Leadership Institute
• National Transportation Safety Board
• Navy Department Information Technology
• Reserve Officers Association

Below is a partial list Fellowship/internships opportunities available to the Washington Scholars Fellowship Program, including a summary description of the duties, learning opportunity, and public policy areas involved:

Agriculture, Dept. of: 
Our link at USDA is through one of the Deputy Undersecretaries there plus we have already had successful WS interns at USDA. It is a good location for those interested in careers in several agriculture-related disciplines, including forestry and forest-management, but also being a large federal agency with a presence in every state and county, USDA also has Congressional Relations, Government Relations, and other such governmental-disciplines that would serve one well in establishing federal public policy credentials.  [Back to the top]

CitizensUnited: 
C.U. is a grassroots public policy activist organization that involves itself in various programs of high interest to their membership.  Our internship there involves hands-on involvement in putting on Washington, DC area events, member contact, public policy meetings in DC with other parallel public policy organizations, and daily contact with CU’s President, David Bossie.  Further details at www.citizensunited.org  [Back to the top]

Department of Commerce [Office of Technology Policy]: 
Focus is on matters of technology policy in U. S. commerce worldwide, ranging from exotic technical advances to intellectual property, nanotechnology, etc., and can include attending Congressional Subcommittee Hearings, Legislation Markup Hearings, write and proofread staff briefings, and assist Senior Policy Analysts with a broad spectrum of projects.  Further information on OTP at http://www.technology.gov  [Back to the top]

Department of Health & Human Services [Office of Disease Prevention & Health Promotion]: 
This position is for those interested in medical careers or careers in health services or health public policy.  You get to work closely with one of the Assistant Surgeon Generals of the U.S., do research, meet other senior officials in health care policy and legislation, organizations such as the National Institutes for Health and the National Disease Control Center, attend health care symposiums, etc.  Key web sites are 1^st, a “fact sheet”:  http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/odphpfact.htm   And a more detailed description of what visiting scholars [interns] do: http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/scholar/default.htm   [Back to the top]

HeritageFoundation (www.heritage.org)

• Staff of Former Attorney General Ed Meese III:  Our premier position, primarily meant for our guys that want to later attend law school before beginning their public policy careers as Congressional Staff, etc.   Mr. Meese was Counselor to the President during the Reagan Administration, and heads up the Center for Legal & Judicial Studies at Washington, DC’s MOST PRESTIGIOUS “Think Tank”, The Heritage Foundation.  Our WS interns blend in with Heritage’s own interns from all across the nation, so this is a superb opportunity.
• Office of Media Relations:   See above re: Heritage Foundation, but this opportunity is in the media relations area, liaisoning with area news media [both print, radio, & TV], to include ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, L. A. Times, etc., and under the specific oversight and tutelage of our WS Chairman, Brian Phillips who works for Heritage in this area.
• Center For International Trade & Economics [CITE]:   Work for Washington’s preeminent center for international economics and ACTUALLY AFFECT U. S. foreign aid policy.  You’ll conduct major research for the Index of Economic Freedom, an annual score card of the world’s economies used by the Millenium Challenge Corporation, investment firms, academia, and foreign Heads of State.  Day-to-day activities include searching for economic developments in all corners of the globe, contacting embassies, building databases of economic information, and creating country folders for senior analysts.  Past interns have gone on to work at the International Monetary Fund, the International Trade Commission, the Department of State, and the Department of Defense, among others.