Application [DOC]
Applications are due to juliag@stanford.edu on Tuesday, May 6 at 5:00PM
General EPC Information
The Educational Program Coordinator is responsible for organizing an extensive calendar of educational, social and community service events for all Stanford students living in the Washington, DC area. A major part of this program includes a speaker series that features interesting Washington, DC contacts, such as members of Congress, journalists, and political appointees. Other summer activities will include social hours, Washington Nationals games, picnics, softball games, monument tours, and events with alumni. Additionally, to facilitate communication between all Stanford students in DC, the EPC is responsible for creating and advertising a DC Summer email list before the end of Spring quarter.
The EPC has a wide range of discretion in deciding which activities to plan, but in order to ensure accountability, s/he will be responsible for planning a minimum of eight speaker (or otherwise educational) events and a minimum of eight social or community service events. In order for something to qualify as an official event, it must require planning and be advertised as an official event, with adequate lead-time, to the DC Summer email list. A small budget is available to cover costs for any events.
The EPC will collaborate with the staff of the Stanford in Washington Program. Furthermore, SIG will provide the EPC with a manual created by former EPCs that will help with how to go about planning events and will provide ideas of what events took place in the past. At the end of the summer, the EPC is expected to put together a record of the events that s/he planned throughout the summer, and to update the "EPC Manual" for the next person to hold the job.
This position is part-time, and should be pursued in addition to a full-time internship or fellowship. The EPC will receive free room and board at the Stanford in Washington house as compensation.
2007 EPC Profile: Megan Stacy
Megan Stacy is a senior majoring in American Studies and pursuing a co-terminal Master's degree in Sociology. Initially hailing from Southern California, she arrived on campus and immediately became very active in the Stanford community's political life through positions in the Roosevelt Institution, the Stanford Democrats, and local political campaigns. By the start of her junior year, this interest in politics pushed her to Washington, DC, where she participated in Stanford in Washington and interned at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In the summer of 2006, she returned to serve as a research assistant for Ronald Brownstein, a journalist with the Los Angeles Times who was on leave to write a book. She returns once again in the summer of 2007 to intern with Senator Ted Kennedy's Director of National Finance. As for what attracts her to the part-time EPC position, Megan states it best:
"Since my first stay in Washington, DC, I have felt a fascination, curiosity, and infatuation with the city. I am certain that this is due in large part to the exceptional job that Stanford programs do in introducing students to all that the District has to offer, from enabling us to meet with high-level officials to exposing us to the finest in arts culture, while maintaining an element of fun as we learn to navigate the DC social scene. I am eager to join the SIG and SIW staff members in perpetuating a Washington experience no other university can match. I am excited to make the Washington experience as positively addictive for other Stanford students as it has remained for me."