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U.S. Department of State<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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About the Internship Experience<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n

For my internship experience, I interned in the Bureau for Educational & Cultural Affairs, assisting on the International Visitors Leadership Program. More broadly, the Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries to promote friendly and peaceful relations. This is accomplished through academic, cultural, sports, and professional exchanges that engage youth, students, educators, artists, athletes, and rising leaders in the United States and more than 160 countries. The International Visitors Leadership Program is the U.S. Department of State\u2019s premier professional exchange program. Through short-term visits to the United States, current and emerging foreign leaders in a variety of fields experience this country firsthand and cultivate lasting relationships with their American counterparts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Throughout my experience, I have helped with programming; writing talking points for leadership and meeting notes; database management and data visualizations; co-drafting an article online, which is available to the public; being a panelist for a youth program event; and coordinated inter-office communications. Nonetheless, I have learned and strengthened my skills in both written and oral communication; interpersonal skills; leadership skills; subject knowledge on a variety of countries; and networking.<\/span><\/p>

Overall, this internship experience was one of the most influential experiences that I’ve ever had. It only makes me more enthusiastic and excited about my potential in working for the U.S. government in some capacity one day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Department of State About the Internship Experience For my internship experience, I interned in the Bureau for Educational & Cultural Affairs, assisting on the International Visitors Leadership Program. More broadly, the Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries to … <\/p>\n

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*A New York native, Francesca is a senior at American University studying I<\/span>nternational Studies at the School of International Service and Advanced Leadership Studies at the School of Public Affairs Leadership Program.<\/span><\/p>

From an early age, she believed in the power of positive change.\u00a0Whether it was through small acts of kindness or getting involved in like-minded communities to make change happen, she knew where she was going. Having the<\/span>\u00a0compassion to help others, she wants to become an aspiring role model to others to bring meaningful change in the world. Committing oneself to a mission of service might seem daunting to some – but to others, like Francesca, it was a calling.<\/span><\/p>

Throughout her journey as an undergraduate, Francesca acquired a new outlook on the world around her. In accruing leadership positions on campus, earning honors and awards, and interning in DC, Francesca has learned that the impact of one’s service makes a great impact to those who truly need or appreciate it.<\/span><\/p>

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*A New York native, Francesca is a senior at American University studying International Studies at the School of International Service and Advanced Leadership Studies at the School of Public Affairs Leadership Program. From an early age, she believed in the power of positive change.\u00a0Whether it was through small acts of kindness or getting involved in … <\/p>\n

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Over the course of this academic year, I have learned a variety of concepts about leadership that have contributed to my meaningful social action project. Among the leadership theory concepts, I have noticed that transformational leadership, authentic leadership, and adaptive leadership were exhibited in my social action project. Such leadership styles have helped me work effectively and successfully within my community and self. Such leadership styles have provided me the knowledge, skills, and tools to think critically and act accordingly to create and executive a successful social action project.<\/span><\/font><\/p>

For my project, I sought to engage with the AU Community and nonprofit organization Community Bridges to create a meaningful connection and difference to support professional development and early learning exposure in youth girls. By utilizing different leadership styles, in addition to heavily considering and utilizing the experience and knowledge of the nonprofit organization, I was able to contribute to making a difference for youth girls to reach their unique versions of success and achievement.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Self-Growth Reflection Over the course of this academic year, I have learned a variety of concepts about leadership that have contributed to my meaningful social action project. Among the leadership theory concepts, I have noticed that transformational leadership, authentic leadership, and adaptive leadership were exhibited in my social action project. Such leadership styles have helped … <\/p>\n

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Summary of Completed Project<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Research<\/i><\/h2>\n

Gender studies have proven that the United States still grapples with its history of systemic employment discrimination on women in the workforce. While solutions for employment equality have been made, organizations must continue generating informative conversations and making tangible decisions to increase the employment rights and representation of women in the workforce. Such discussions can encourage an array of complex organizations to confront gender discrimination in the workforce to increase employment equality for women and other marginalized communities.<\/p>\n

In the past 60 years, the United States has seen significant progress in fostering gender equality in both the public and private sectors. In light of this progression, however, it has been proven that progress has continued to stagger for women. Since the Great Recession from 2010, the ratio of women\u2019s to men\u2019s employment has been stalled by at least 85 percent. While gender inequality has made substantial progress since the early 1960\u2019s, data from recent decades have concluded that this progress has slowed, and on certain indications, have stalled entirely. Possible solutions to this matter include institutional, cultural, and policy changes. Gender discrimination has been demonstrated given: a woman’s pay; amount of education; field of study; years of employment experience, and; current occupation in the workforce. <\/span>Two strong solutions have been found to employment equality for women, which are improving existing employment policies and creating early exposure opportunities in young girls.<\/span><\/p>\n

Project Implementation & Results<\/i><\/h2>\n

I have planned, organized, and executed a Volunteer Day of Service event with non-profit organization Community Bridges<\/b><\/a> to support professional development and early learning exposure in young girls. The event, named “<\/span>The Community Bridges College-To-Careers Field Trip,” took place on Saturday, April 9th from 11:30-3:30pm on American University\u2019s campus in Washington, DC. The event was a wonderful opportunity for girls to receive a tour of a university campus, explore useful university departments important to the college exploration process, engage in fun activities, and interact with current university students about their unique college experiences; academic interests; extracurricular activities, and; career interests.<\/span><\/p>\n

After applications and interviews, I was gladly offered a community service grant from American University to support funding for this event. I was able to provide free university merchandise to the girls in attendance of the event to remember this special event.<\/p>\n

Project Takeaways<\/i><\/h2>\n

This event was in conjunction with my research topic, gender discrimination and employment equality; support for professional development and early learning exposure in girls; passion to make a difference, and; application of leadership theories into practice. I have additionally chosen this project because I wanted to partner with an existing, experienced organization in the field of youth development, and connect <\/span>with those directly in the community by gaining <\/span>hands on experience in my research interest. Given the positive feedback that I have received from the students and staff at Community Bridges, the Volunteer Day of Service event was successful. Most importantly, I have learned from this experience that n<\/span>o matter our perception of our service, it will surely be impactful to those who appreciate it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic’s continuous nature, I have found it crucial to address issues still being exhibited in the DMV area. I found it most important to conduct my individual project on women’s economic empowerment, particularly through a service event that I made to provide an early exposure opportunity to youth.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Throughout my time at American University, I had the privilege to be involved in the School of Public Affairs Leadership Program.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

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Throughout my time at American University, I had the privilege to be involved in the School of Public Affairs Leadership Program. Check out my projects and reflections found in the drop down menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3360,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-304","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":242,"date":"2021-04-22T22:16:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T22:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2022-04-22T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:38:42","slug":"social-action-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/social-action-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Action Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t

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At the beginning of the environment and sustainability-based research process, my team and I first began asking ourselves: what was the best way we can make an impact on our DC community? Through this question, we led ourselves down a path of intensive research, finding that community agriculture and urban gardens can work to reduce climate change, promote food security, encourage community engagement, foster community relations, and increase the health of the general public. Using this information, <\/span>our group has narrowed our focus to exploring sustainable means of food production in urban communities, pollution in metropolitan areas, food deserts, and the pervasive nature of environmental racism.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the group and I organized an informational social media campaign, aimed at creating informative content about urban gardening and and environmental-friendly practices for the general public to view. Behind our social media efforts, the group and I planned a Zoom Seminar event, with practitioners from the field of Urban Gardening, specifically Ibti Vincent of FoodPrints; Alex Morales of the Bridgeport Green Village Initiative; and Professorial Lecturer Victoria Kiechel of American University.<\/span>
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Through this year-long project, my group and I sought to inspire dozens of individuals to make a difference in their own communities. By spreading informative content about urban gardening, providing an event with scholarly practitioners about the field of work and how those interested can get involved, my group and I have successfully our goals of wanting to make an impact on those in the DC community.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary of Completed Project Research At the beginning of the environment and sustainability-based research process, my team and I first began asking ourselves: what was the best way we can make an impact on our DC community? Through this question, we led ourselves down a path of intensive research, finding that community agriculture and urban gardens … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Social Action Project”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3360,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":240,"date":"2021-04-22T22:16:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T22:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/?page_id=240"},"modified":"2023-11-19T04:03:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T04:03:28","slug":"lets-connect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/fg4767a\/lets-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t

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