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"I am currently studying public policy at Duke University and expect to receive my Master's Degree in May. I expect to either work for a nonprofit or the government in education policy after I graduate. After Smith and prior to entering graduate school, I worked in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice as a paralegal for two years. During that time, I worked on merger cases. The experience indirectly led me to policy school. Both my previous job and my current studies are related to my American Studies major--since they focus on law and policy in America, but I did not focus on the political economy as an undergraduate. In fact, I only took one microeconomics course and one government course the entire four years. Rather, most of my courses were about culture, and theory. (I participated in the Smithsonian Program and wrote about American musicals.) I think that my undergraduate major (which I sometimes think of as 'race, class, and gender in the U.S.') has given me a unique perspective as I study public policy. And while my classes do not inherently address the intersection of culture and policy, I definitely have that question in the back of my mind most of the time." |
