Truman Center Interns Head to Washington
Once again, the UMKC Truman Center is sending two UMKC undergraduate interns to work for a month in Congressional offices all expenses paid under its Bootstrap Internship Program. This program honors Harry Truman’s life-long commitment to encourage the civic education and engagement of young men and women.
Lola Oduyeru, Dean Vaught and Emalea Black
This year, the two Bootstrap Award recipients are: Emalea Black and Lola Oduyeru. Emalea, a Political Science major with a minor in Classics, will be working in the office of Representative Jo Ann Emerson (Republican, Missouri 8th District). Lola, a Political Science major with a minor in Economics will be working in the office of Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (Democrat, Missouri 5th District.)
This is the fourth set of Truman Center Interns to spend part or all of their summers in D. C. since the program began. The interns are competitively chosen from among all applicants by an advisory committee made up of UMKC alumni who have been Congressional interns, internship coordinators, or otherwise active in civic engagement efforts in the KC area. The internship carries academic credit based on a successful completion of a reading and writing project mentored and monitored by Professor Beth Miller of the Political Science Department. For more on what interns do and how they have reacted to their experiences in the past, see:
