Internship Options
"While in DC I worked
for the The Boeing Company. An opportunity like that was a dream
come true for me. It really gave me a chance to do some real work,
in a real corporate setting. I was charged with starting my own
project. I started it from scratch and now it is something that
Boeing will use for years to come. Not only was Boeing great but
being in DC was an amazing experience that I would not trade for
the world. I made great friends and have great memories."
- Aaron Bondi
Butler's D.C. Program offers substantive internships
tailored to the academic and career interests of each individual
student.
Our coordinator in D.C., Ivo Spalatin, is a veteran of
international and political affairs with over 20 years of
experience as a senior policymaker in Congress and the State
Department. Mr. Spalatin will work with students and faculty to
place each student in an individually designed internship based on
the student's academic interests and work experience. Throughout
the semester long program Mr. Spalatin will monitor each student's
intern and academic experiences in Washington, D.C.
Butler students have completed internships in a wide variety of
companies and organizations, including:
The ABC affiliate news
station in Washington, D.C.
American College of Nurses &
Midwives
American Federation of
Teachers
Americans for the Arts
Americans for Tax Reform
Amnesty
International
Attorney General
of D.C.
Boeing
Company
"I am a
chemistry major at Butler and while I was in D.C. I wanted to
pursue work in a related field. I was an intern at the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA). I worked in their molecular Biology
Branch and really enjoyed it! I feel the work I did was of
substance and that I got a good taste of lab work. My supervisor
was a good teacher and treated me like a colleague."
- Jaclyn Barrett
Chevy Chase
Bank
Congressional Youth Leadership
Council
The Corporation
Council of the D.C. Government
DC Improv
The FCC
Food & Drug
Administration
Fox News
The Friedrich Ebert
Foundation
Kodak Corporation
KSCNW, a government relations firm
Levine School of
Music
Make-A-Wish
Foundation
The Mexican American Legal Defense
and Education Fund
MIX 107.3
MSNBC (Chris Matthew's Hardball
Program)
National Center for Missing
& Exploited Children (NCMEC)
National Dance Education
Organization
National Geographic
Magazine
Organization of American
States
Planned
Parenthood
The Polling
Company
Representative John
Dingell
Representative Jim
Sensenbrenner
"My experience at
National Geographic was amazing. I had the opportunity to work side
by side with the writers and get feedback on my writing from some
of the most successful editors in publishing. In addition I made a
lot of great contacts that will help me find a job after
graduation."
- Beth Clayton
Senator Evan Bayh
Senator Dick Durbin
Senator Richard Lugar
Smith Barney
Smithsonian
Associates
The Smithsonian's National Air
and Space Museum
S.O.M.E. (So Others Might
Eat)
United Nations
Information Centre
United States Telecom
Association
Walter Reed Army Medical
Center
Washington Sports &
Entertainment (Washington Mystics, Washington Wizards,
Washington Capitols)
The White House (Public
Affairs)
Internships are also available in, but not limited to:
Alliance for
International Educational and Cultural Exchange
American Enterprise
Institute
United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum
Freedom Soccer
(D.C.'s women's soccer team)
The Gay and Lesbian Victory
Fund
"My internship was amazing. My boss and the other people at the
American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) were extremely kind to
me. I had my own office, computer and phone line so that I could
track down archival material on midwifery from all over the USA. I
also was sent to the National Library of Medicine where I went
through the ACNM's archives. This taught me a lot about
organization and archival research that I had not known. Finally, I
went to the Frontier School of Nurse-Midwifery in Kentucky -- the
oldest school of nurse-midwifery in the US still in operation --
for a week to conduct research."
- Kirstyn Brownson
Indian Health Center
National Governors
Association
Plan International, a private international health development
organization
Senator Edward
Kennedy
Senator Hillary
Clinton
Tudor Place Historic
House
WTOP, an all news radio
station
Art associations and institutes
International Organizations and Foreign Embassies
Law firms
Non-profit legal advocacy groups and organizations
Offices of the members of Congress
Social service organizations
Think tanks