Roosevelt Institute Campus Network - The Roosevelt Summer Academy

The Roosevelt Summer Academy

The Roosevelt Summer Academy prides itself in replacing traditional intern duties like making coffee or photocopies with legitimate professional responsibilities like marking up legislation or running conferences. Academy interns receive stipends to work full-time at prestigious think tanks and other institutions serving the public interest in Washington, DC, Chicago and New York City. The Academy adds a complementary training curriculum and weekly networking events to create an integrated program of leadership development. The objective of the program is to bring new, diverse, and progressive voices into the political process. The program runs for 10 weeks from June to August.

As of 2012, Roosevelt ran three concurrent programs: The Washington Academy, The Chicago Academy and The New York City Academy. The Washington Academy placed twenty students at the Roosevelt Institution's national office as well as at organizations such as the Center for American Progress, the Economic Policy Institute, the AFL-CIO, National Security Network, NDN, and Center for Community Change. The Chicago Academy placed ten students with different Chicago City Agencies where they worked on energy and environmental policy in an urban setting.