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October 18, 2019 | Noon - 6:00 PM | Kendade Atrium

At LEAP, over 200 Mount Holyoke students present about their internships and research experiences. You will hear from future policy makers, activists, entrepreneurs, data scientists, teachers, researchers, and market analysts. Most will tell stories of unmitigated success and transformative learning. Others will share details of unexpected challenges they faced, and how they were required to shift and adapt in response. Students worked in 42 countries in every imaginable field. They will discuss important issues of social justice, relate how they met challenges of communication and expression in new contexts, and talk about how to find and succeed in summer internships.

LEAP is designed to give students who aspire to undertake internships and summer research the opportunity to learn from their peers. It is also for the whole Mount Holyoke community where family, friends, faculty, staff and our alumnae come together to celebrate the work and contributions of the presenters.

We are hugely impressed by students in College 211 and inspired by their individual success and collective learning. Their work in bringing the LEAP Symposium to fruition was exceptional. We thank the faculty, staff, alumnae, donors, and internship and research providers whose contributions have make this event possible.
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Friday, October 18 • 1:30pm - 2:25pm
Rights and Representation in Public Policy

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How can interns navigate bureaucratic frameworks to improve rights and representation for disadvantaged communities? This panel follows four students who worked with organizations in different stages of policy action. We examined various methods of working with different stakeholders in setting policy, researching effects, practicing policy, and alternative ways of influencing policy from the outside. Through research, we explored how progress is a negotiation between communities and policy. We represented people who had lost their voice through conditions of disadvantage, and we learned how policy is formed and reformed around them. We worked within various scales and fields of government systems, from public institutions to private corporations, to advance the rights of those left behind. Learn about our internships, where we examined issues such as global interaction through technology, human trafficking, disability discrimination, and immigrant rights, to learn about how to work in existing bureaucratic systems and effect change within them.
Moderators
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Presenters
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Shi Dong

What’s Going On: A Brief Tour of China's Internet Governance Landscape, Sociology Major and Film & Media Studies Minor
What is going on in China? This summer, I worked in the Institute of Journalism at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) as a research assistant for a newly-established office focusing on Internet governance. SASS is a leading think tank and a distinguished academic institution... Read More →
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Yiwen Bao

Alternative Ways of Influencing Policy within Certain Legal Frameworks, Mount Holyoke College
Influencing policies related to disadvantaged groups directly from either within or outside the political system is such a hard ideal to fulfill. Through the internship I did as a research intern this summer at Verité, an organization dedicated to eliminate forced labor issues in... Read More →
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Ashton Bliss

Asylum is Not a Crime: Working Within the Law for Immigrant Populations, Politics and German Studies
This summer, I had the opportunity to dive into a topic I feel very impassioned about: immigration. I served as an intern at Hyder Immigration Law in Richmond, VA, working alongside a small team of two attorneys and three paralegals. Most of my regular work consisted of research for... Read More →
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Abigail Oliver

Disability in the U.S. Legal Field: Exploring Representation through the American Bar Association's Commission on Disability Rights, History major; Law, Public Policy, and Human Rights Nexus
I worked with the American Bar Association’s Commission on Disability Rights in Washington, D.C. this summer. This opportunity opened my eyes to the bureaucratic world of legal administration, specifically in its approach to diversity. The Commission on Disability Rights focuses... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2019 1:30pm - 2:25pm EDT
Clapp 218
  Session II