“The biggest benefit of being [in Washington, D.C. is] learning from people who are in the field that you want to go into. You can talk to someone in advocacy, you can talk to someone in policy or someone who is working on the hill and learn... in a way that you couldn’t if you were just at home.” Linnea Bennett, senior, political science major ASU efforts in Washington D.C. ASU convenes key players to enable exciting prospects for advance high-level dialogue. By students and faculty. Our presence being in Washington, D.C., ASU in our nation’s capital provides serves as a catalyst and a host of “ASU faculty and students add depth and diversity to the McCain significant educational opportunities timely, leadership-level discourse Institute’s staff. The reach back to ASU for expertise and research for our students and leverages the between national decision-makers, empowers the McCain Institute to tackle the toughest of issues expertise of our world-class faculty opinion leaders, and ASU students, facing the nation and the international community. ” across a wide-range of issue areas. faculty and staff. LTG Benjamin Freakley, Retired, USA Senior Advisor, McCain Institute for International Leadership and Professor of Practice, ASU School of Public Affairs

“I can’t even describe how grateful I am that ASU provides this opportunity to its students and there are organizations like New Arizona State America that are willing to come to this level and really reach out for our help and use it in a valuable way.” ASU collaborates with individuals ASU helps to advance Arizona and organizations to optimize and the nation by serving as a Alyssa Sims, senior, business and global politics major and minor University in innovative partnerships. Our resource for policymakers. ASU in Arabic studies partnerships with think tanks, federal delivers expertise and cutting edge research agencies, policy councils, ideas to national leaders and policy Washington, D.C. nonprofit organizations, national groups. The Office of National Policy associations and other colleges and Affairs represents ASU at the federal “Students are not only getting jobs in D.C., many of them are getting universities comprise a focused effort level and serves as the primary fantastic jobs in D.C. Two former students whose D.C. externships I to address society’s most pressing contact for Arizona’s Congressional supervised have served on the Obama White House staff.” challenges related to education, delegation in Washington. Orde Kittrie, Professor of Law, ASU Sandra Day O’Connor health, economic development, the College of Law environment, social justice and many other global issues.

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