Rosenberg/Humphrey Program in Public Policy

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The Rosenberg/Humphrey Program in Public Policy (also known as the Marvin Rosenberg/Hubert H. Humphrey Program in Public Policy) is a fellowship program out of the City College of New York. The fellowship offers admitted students financial stipends to summer internships of their choosing, either in Washington D.C. or New York City. The fellowships are intended to be policy centered.

[edit] Origin

The fellowship was established in 1984 by Marvin Rosenberg, a friend of U.S. senator Hubert H. Humphrey.

[edit] Past Internship Placements

Interns have held positions in various local, state, and national organizations, both governmental and non-for-profit. Below is a list of past organizations that RH fellows have worked for:

  • Africa Policy Information Center
  • American Civil Liberties Union
  • Americans for Democratic Action
  • Brookings Institute
  • Center for Community Change
  • City of New York, Department of Business Services
  • Common Cause
  • Congressional Offices including Hillary Clinton, Charles Rangel, and Major Owens
  • Constituency for Africa
  • Council on Hemispheric Affairs
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Department of Transportation
  • House Committee on Small Business
  • General Accounting Office
  • Institute for Policy Studies
  • Justice Department
  • Lambada Legal Defense and Education Fund
  • Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
  • League of United Latin American Citizens
  • Library of Congress
  • Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
  • NASA
  • National Asian Pacific-American Legal Consortium
  • National Council of La Raza
  • National Organization for Women
  • National Urban League
  • OMB Watch
  • Physicians for Social Responsibility
  • Public Defender Service
  • Public Voice for Food and Health Policy
  • US General Services Administration Office
  • Equal Employment Opportunity

[edit] External links

  • Rosenberg/Humphrey Program official website[1]
  • the City College of New York Official website[2]