Proud Daddy here!
Our younger daughter just got a letter of acceptance to the Master's program at Princeton. I haven't asked her yet which degree she is working toward, the Master's in Public Affairs (M.P.A.) or Master's in Public Policy (M.P.P.). I'm pretty sure she will add a specialization in environmental research and policy.
Some of you may remember my descriptions of her semester abroad studying in India and her solo cross-country bicycle trip a few years back. She also spent a summer up in the John Muir wilderness, two days hike into the crest of the Sierras, studying unexplained native frog deaths as part of her Berkeley undergraduate studies. (Decline of these high-altitude frogs is one of the phenomena studied to measure the effect of Global Warming - so she was on the front line of primary research.)
She has applied equal determination to her studies and various jobs, most recently her career with a national policy group in DC. For example tomorrow she will participate in a lobbying/policy advocacy visit to Congress at the invitation of a committee. For two years she has reported to a top manager who was a staffer - policy specialist - in the White House for several years. She says White House level responsiveness has been expected of her and I know she has been working horrendous overtime since she started there. Looks like all this hard work is starting to earn her some recognition.
Proud Dad.
Our younger daughter just got a letter of acceptance to the Master's program at Princeton. I haven't asked her yet which degree she is working toward, the Master's in Public Affairs (M.P.A.) or Master's in Public Policy (M.P.P.). I'm pretty sure she will add a specialization in environmental research and policy.
Some of you may remember my descriptions of her semester abroad studying in India and her solo cross-country bicycle trip a few years back. She also spent a summer up in the John Muir wilderness, two days hike into the crest of the Sierras, studying unexplained native frog deaths as part of her Berkeley undergraduate studies. (Decline of these high-altitude frogs is one of the phenomena studied to measure the effect of Global Warming - so she was on the front line of primary research.)
She has applied equal determination to her studies and various jobs, most recently her career with a national policy group in DC. For example tomorrow she will participate in a lobbying/policy advocacy visit to Congress at the invitation of a committee. For two years she has reported to a top manager who was a staffer - policy specialist - in the White House for several years. She says White House level responsiveness has been expected of her and I know she has been working horrendous overtime since she started there. Looks like all this hard work is starting to earn her some recognition.
Proud Dad.
