Dominican Scholar Press Releases Communications and Media Relations 10-15-2014 Dominican Panetta Institute Congressional Interns Reunite Sarah Gardner Dominican University of California,
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[email protected]. Dominican Panetta Institute Congressional Interns Reunite Juleah Cordi ’14, Sydney Lewis ’13, Daniela Leyva '13, Caitlin Verby ’10, Melroy Atkins ’05 and Molly Starr ’01 attended the lecture. Darcel Sanders ’09 and Kathleen Skiles ’07 were also invited. They were all students in Dominican's Department of Political Science and International Studies. Founder and chairman of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy, Secretary Panetta discussed his new book,Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace. The event was in partnership with Book Passage. The Panetta Institute Congressional Internship Program has had a profound impact on Dominican students who have participated in it. Sydney Lewis, who currently works as a staff assistant in U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s Sacramento office, and Daniela Leyva, who is in the casework office in Senator Boxer's Oakland office, credit their experience in the program for laying the groundwork for their new roles.