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 Counsel
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 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
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
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