MPA
Middle-YearOut Internships
MPA students are encouraged to take a year between their first and second years of study to gain work experience. Students who have exercised this option in the past have taken positions at the organizations listed here.
American Flood Coalition Washington, D.C.
Cairo Center for Development Cairo, Egypt
CARE Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Cairo, Egypt; New Delhi, India
Carnegie Moscow Center Moscow, Russia
Center for International Learning Muscat, Oman
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation London, United Kingdom
Fundación Esquel Quito, Ecuador
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor Washington, D.C.
Innovations for Poverty Action New Delhi, India
International Labour Organization Geneva, Switzerland
Liberia Ministry of Finance and Development Planning Monrovia, Liberia
New York City Urban Fellows Program New York, New York
Office of U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) Washington, D.C.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Paris, France
Prince George’s County Government Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Sanghamitra Bangalore, India
The Clinton Foundation Maputo, Mozambique; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Beijing, China
The Women’s Dignity Project Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Suva, Fiji
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Villavicencio, Colombia
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Damascus, Syria
U.S. Agency for International Development Almaty, Kazakhstan; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Kathmandu, Nepal
World Food Programme Dakar, Senegal; Bangkok, Thailand