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Event: Connect with McKinsey - Spring 2025 Edition

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Event: Handshake 101: your guide to using Handshake after graduation

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Event: Oliver Wyman – Ace the Case and Interview Tips

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Top Diversity Programs for Students from Underrepresented BackgroundsShare This: Share Top Diversity Programs for Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds on FacebookShare Top Diversity Programs for Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds on LinkedInShare Top Diversity Programs for Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds on X
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Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship ProgramShare This: Share Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program on FacebookShare Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program on LinkedInShare Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program on X
The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program is a merit and needs based program that honors Thomas R. …

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Public Health Policy & Management Experience with Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine

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Congresswoman Stephanie Bice's Office (OK-05)
Center for Prison Education - Campus Engagement Fellow
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Fall 2025 – Future Leaders in Public Service Internship Program (All Majors Welcomed)
Partnership for Public Service
Research Assistant, Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies (Literature and Culture)
American Enterprise Institute

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Vault Guide to Politics, Public Policy, and Activism Jobs

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The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

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Featured Courses

GOVT 396 – Human Rights Advocacy: Critical Assessment and Practical Engagement in Global Social Justice

The core animating principles and practices of human rights are under threat. Will the global human rights movement be able…

CSPL 494Z – Internship: Elections

Through this course, students can earn academic credit for an internship, whether paid or unpaid, that involves learning about or…

CSPL 120 – Civic Engagement Practice

Wesleyan has a long tradition of civic engagement. CSPL 120 plays a critical role in helping continue this tradition. This…

AFAM 316 – Carceral Connecticut: Policing Race, Gender, and Sexuality in a “Progressive” State

Often considered a progressive bastion, Connecticut in fact has been at the forefront of carceral practices since the eighteenth century.…

CSPL 316 – Human Rights Advocacy: Critical Assessment and Practical Engagement in Global Social Justice

The core animating principles and practices of human rights are under threat. Will the global human rights movement be able…

QAC 378 / GOVT 381 – DeltaLab: Computational Media Analysis

The content of this course focuses on Wesleyan Media Project media data, including advertising and local television news, and exposes…

ENVS 350 / STS 349 – Environmental Justice & Sustainability

The US Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of…

ENVS 285 – Environmental Law & Policy

If you are interested in the environment and want some perspective on where our environmental law and policy came from,…

ENVS 284 / STS 293 / ENVS 284 – Animal Law & Policy

This course will provide an overview of law and public policy as they apply to non-human animals. The course will…

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Princeton Carter ’20 (he/him)

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Government, Sociology
Law Student Rutgers Law School - Newark

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Ari Fishman ’13 (she/her)

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College of Social Studies, French Studies
Assistant Director of Communications Campaigns and Strategy ACLU of NY

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Katherine Krems ’08 (she/hers)

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