SPIA MPA Summer Internships

FIELD I: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

MPA

Summer Interships

MPA candidates must complete an approved summer internship between the first and second years of study for a minimum of 10 weeks. Unpaid internships in the public and nonprofit sectors are financially subsidized by WWS. Here are examples of organizations that have supported WWS summer interns.

Access Now Washington, D.C. Balkan Trust for Democracy Belgrade, Serbia Caucasus Research Resource Centers-Armenia Yerevan, Armenia Center for Constitutional Rights New York, New York Congressional Research Service Washington, D.C. House Foreign Affairs Committee Washington, D.C. Impacto Social Consultores Mexico City, Mexico Mercy Corps Nairobi, Kenya Natural Resource Governance Institute Yangon, Myanmar Office of Georgia State Representative Sandra Scott (D-District 76) Holcomb Atlanta, Georgia Office of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Washington, D.C. Office of U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) Washington, D.C. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR) Geneva, Switzerland

United Nations Department of Peace Operations (UNDPO) New York, New York U.S. Department of Defense Arlington, Virginia U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of State Washington, D.C.; Laos; Honduras; South Africa; China U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Vienna, Austria FIELD II: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle, Washington CDC Group London, United Kingdom Center for Policy Research New Delhi, India Community Organisation Resource Centre Cape Town, South Africa Dalberg Advisors Mumbai, India Energy Foundation San Francisco, California Engineers without Borders Canada Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Prison of Peace Calabasas, California

Human Rights Watch New York, New York

The Institute of Energy Economics Tokyo, Japan

Innovations for Poverty Action Monrovia, Liberia; Bogota, Colombia

Inter-American Development Bank Washington, D.C. International Center for Research on Women New Delhi, India International Organization for Migration Dakar, Senegal International Rescue Committee New York, New York; Jordan; Lebanon Last Mile Health Monrovia, Liberia Mercy Corps Washington, D.C.; Bogotá, Colombia Myanmar Development Institute Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar Root Capital Cambridge, Massachusetts The World Bank Washington, D.C. United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCO) Bangkok, Thailand; Perugia, Italy United Nations International Children’s Fund  (UNICEF) New York, New York; Geneva, Switzerland; Minsk, Belarus United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Amman, Jordan; Istanbul, Turkey U.S. Agency for International Development Washington, D.C.; Tegucigalpa, Honduras World Food Programme Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar World Resources Institute Washington, D.C.; Kampala, Uganda

FIELD III: DOMESTIC POLICY

Office of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) Washington, D.C.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Washington, D.C.

Overcoming Racism New Orleans, Louisiana

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Washington, D.C.

Center for Civic Policy Albuquerque, New Mexico

Political Violence Lab Washington, D.C.

Citizens Housing and Planning Council New York, New York

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey New York, New York

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development London, United Kingdom

City of Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics Boston, Massachusetts

Seattle Department of Transportation Seattle, Washington

California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research Sacramento, California

City of Chicago Mayor’s Office Chicago, Illinois City of New York Mayor’s Office New York, New York

Southern Coalition for Social Justice Durham, North Carolina The New Teacher Project New York, New York

European Central Bank Frankfurt, Germany Federal Reserve Bank of New York New York, New York Hawai’i Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice Honolulu, Hawaii IDinsight New Delhi, India; Lusaka, Zambia

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Washington, D.C.

The W. Haywood Burns Institute for Justice, Fairness, & Equity Oakland, California

Cruise Automation San Francisco, California

U.S. Department of Energy Washington, D.C.

Mission Asset Fund San Francisco, California

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

What Works Cities New York, New York

National Endowment for the Arts Washington, D.C.

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Washington, D.C.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Detroit, Michigan

Israel Innovation Authority, Airport City Jerusalem, Israel

New York City Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget New York, New York

FIELD IV: ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY

Let America Vote Washington, D.C.

African Center for Economic Transformation Accra, Ghana

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Paris, France

Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York, New York

African Development Bank Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa  (UNECA) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

New Jersey Department of Health Trenton, New Jersey

California Policy Lab Berkeley, California

U.S. Department of the Treasury Washington, D.C.

Office of U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) Washington, D.C.

Impacto Social Consultores Mexico City, Mexico

World Economic Forum New York, New York