Student Blog

IIW participants regularly write blog posts about their experiences in the program. You can access these posts here, beginning with the most recent ones.


August 4th, 2021: Lily interned with the D.C. Chapter of the Sierra Club in Spring 2021. As a non-political science major, she was wary of the utility that IIW might offer her, but found that she was granted an invaluable introduction to the non-profit world in D.C.

Read Lily’s blog post here.


July 14th, 2021: Spring 2021 IIW Alum Anastaseya Kulikova lived in D.C. as the capital began to transition back to in-person life. Most of her work at the Advocacy Project was done virtually, but she was still able to explore the city with an IIW classmate and start her professional network.

Read Anastaseya’s blog post here.


June 23rd, 2021: Spring 2021 IIW Alum Cara Adams writes about her experience interning virtually at the National Women’s Law Center in D.C. Cara extended her internship period and is continuing her work through this summer.

Read Cara’s blog post here.