Stories from McCourt
Master of Public Policy
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Georgetown Awards Early-Career Professors With Grants To Explore AI, Digital Ethics
A McCourt professor is among three early-career faculty members awarded $100,000 in research funding and leave to pursue their research in AI and digital ethics.
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How McCourt Students Are Helping Reduce Youth Violence in the Nation’s Capital
Student teams in the McCourt School’s Policy Innovation Lab partner with local organizations to shape equitable public policy.
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10 Grad Students Across Policy, Business, Security and Law Named Bryce Harlow Foundation Fellows
Ten Georgetown graduate and professional students, including three McCourt students, have been named fellows of the Bryce Harlow Foundation for the second year in a row.
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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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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.