Policy Connection
Wheelock Student Policy Fellows Program
- Bridgit Paula, B.S. Student
Senator Robert A. Antonioni - Alea Olson, B.S.W. Student
Senator Karen Spilka - Maulana Dorce, B.A. Student
Senator Dianne Wilkerson - Suzanne Gibbons, M.S. Student
Representative Patricia A. Haddad - Lucia Mock, B.A. Student
Representative Marie P. St. Fleur - Aimee Camcho, B.S.W. Student
Representative Alice K. Wolf - Interested in the Student Policy Fellowship Program? Contact Sarah Fox, Policy Specialist, at sfox@wheelock.edu.
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Wheelock Policy Fellows Alumni Updates
Maulana Dorce’s fellowship placement in Senator Diane Wilkerson’s office led to a full-time staff position.
Lucy Mock was a participant in The Commonwealth Seminar(TM) which is an “intensive training program focused on teaching diverse leaders how the Massachusetts Legislature really works.”
Click here to view our program flyer.
Now in its third year, the Wheelock Student Policy Fellows (WSPF) Program offers a unique cross-disciplinary opportunity for students who are inspired to stimulate political change on behalf of children and families. This valuable experience fortifies Wheelock students with the leadership, advocacy and policy skills necessary to work toward improving the lives of children and families within a multicultural and global context. The approach of the Fellows Program is to expand students’ cultural insight into the political and legislative processes that directly affect the lives of children and families. The goal of the program is to prepare young people to become leaders and advocates who will enact positive, systemic change.
The objective of the seminar is for students to have knowledge of the following:
- Nature and forms of public policy practice
- Forms of public policy
- Policy formulation and processes
- Policy implementation processes
- State legislative processes and relationship to federal legislative processes
- State House and Senate committees and leadership
- Legislative and political strategies
- Policy advocacy processes
- Components of effective leadership
- Selection Process
All applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Be a matriculated junior or senior undergraduate or graduate student at Wheelock College or Wheelock alum who has graduated within the past year of the program start date.
- Possess a strong academic background.
- Demonstrate an interest in policy development and advocacy.
- Have the support of their academic advisor.
- Show how the Fellowship will support their current, as well as their envisioned work.
Download the application here. The application will be posted on this site in the fall. Applicants must submit the application attaching a complete current resume. The Fellowship Committee meets to consider applications in the fall. They are ranked upon the above criteria.
