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COA Student Interns with Obama Campaign, Meets with Inspiration
Alyson with co-workers at an event for Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joseph Biden, Chicago
Alyson Bell (’10) is currently interning for COA credit with Obama for America, Barack Obama’s national campaign.
She tells me from Chicago, “I’m working for the finance department in the national headquarters, where our department does pretty much all of the fundraising for the national campaign. Most of what I do involves processing donations. We get tons of donations from individuals in the mail, people send them in after hosting house parties, and then there are events that we organize which bring in larger amounts of money. There’s a lot of Excel involved!
Although Alyson plans to work in the world of finance, she wanted an education beyond economics and Excel—cut to her time in COA’s own study abroad program in anthropology and political economy in Yucatán, Mexico. But her work with the Obama campaign goes beyond the computer monitor, too: Alyson says her “coolest” responsibilities include (more…)
