Stories from McCourt
Master of Public Policy
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From the Classroom to City Hall: My Summer Interning for the City of Boston
Tejas Kaur (MPP’27) blogs her experiences as the Summer 2026 McCourt School Summer Storyteller.
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How I’m Finding My Career Path and Landing Dream Internships as a Grad Student
Priyasha Chakravarti (C’25) (MPP’27) is a second-year Master of Public Policy candidate who is interning at the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies program this summer.
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How this McCourt Alumna is Helping Revive Local Journalism in Her Hometown
Erin Schrimpf (MPP’16) hosts a daily news broadcast for Missouri’s Jefferson City News Tribune, connecting communities to the public policy decisions that shape their lives.
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A Fundación Coppel Future Leaders Scholar’s Mission to Give Back
The daughter of a Mexican Navy officer, Fundación Coppel Future Leaders Scholar Emilia Antúnez Marchetti (MPP’27), understood the meaning of public service at a young age.
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How This McCourt Grad Helps Keep Metro Moving
McCourt School of Public Policy alumna Bela Walkin (MPP ’25), senior policy analyst at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), was drawn to public transit policy by a belief that how cities move their people shapes the quality of their lives.
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She wanted to be a doctor. Public Policy and Law Showed Her a Different Way of Driving Change.
Abbey Basa wanted to be a doctor. Now she is pursuing public policy and law degrees to tackle systemic challenges in education and healthcare.
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This Howard Scholar’s Journey to Expanding Opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Marlon Brooks (MPP-EP’28) is the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Howard Scholar, a full-tuition scholarship awarded to a Howard University student or alumnus to attend the McCourt School.
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When Teaching Exposed Inequality, She Turned to Public Policy for Answers
As the 2025-2026 Whittington Scholar, Britney Cheung (MPP’26) is drawing on her experience as a teacher and a commitment to expanding opportunity for underserved communities.
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An Olympian’s Path to Improving Mental Health Outcomes Through Public Policy
How one student’s journey to the McCourt School to study mental health policy began as an Olympian.
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Policy Impacts Tableside: A McCourt Alum’s Journey to Strengthen the Restaurant Industry
How managing a restaurant through COVID led Eric Jeffay (MPP’23) to seek new ways to support the industry.