Take it Easy & Avoid Perfection The United States is in the middle of a global pandemic, everyone is stressed, and no one knows exactly what to do. Of all the things I took from my internship from the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, one of the most important things I will take away is…

Flexibility and other Soft Skills Flexibility. It’s something we’ve all–to varying degrees–had to embrace over the last few months. Starting in March, I knew that finding a suitable internship would be difficult, and by April, I conceded that I probably wouldn’t be doing quite the work I had expected in Summer 2020. But, now coming…

My remote work for the Allegheny Conference on Community Development has provided me the opportunity to get a glimpse at the public policy process from the private sector perspective. The Conference has a range of policy objectives that its member employers (for-profit and nonprofit) find to be vitally important to the Greater Pittsburgh region’s future….

Hey Pitt! My name is Charlie Echard, and I just finished my junior year studying Economics, Political Science, and Sociology in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. I am fortunate to be pursuing an internship through the David C. Frederick Public Service Internship Award through the University Honors College. Both my involvement with the…