Xiao Tan is a second-year CIPA student from China. She is concentrating her studies on Economic and Financial Policy. If you wish to learn more about Xiao, you may read her bio here.
DNC Chair Tom Perez Speaks to CIPA Students: Off-Campus Semester Offers Birdseye View of DC
By Lisa Jervey Lennox, CIPA Assistant Director for Communications
Last night, students participating in our CIPA Washington, DC off-campus externship semester discussed leadership experience and political strategy with Tom Perez, the Chair of the Democratic National Committee and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor. Our students on the main Ithaca campus were able to join the discussion –via- Zoom, but I was lucky enough to be in DC and enjoy the class “live.” (more…)
Off-Campus Study in Washington, DC: CIPA Student Recounts Fall Externship at U.S. Department of State
Mauricio Cortes is a second-year CIPA student with a concentration in Public and Nonprofit Management. Before coming to Cornell, he served three tours with the U.S. Navy in the Middle East. He also served as a field engineer with ABB Inc., working on energy and sustainability projects in Los Angeles and Baden, Switzerland. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University.
This past fall, Mauricio enrolled in CIPA’s off-campus study program in Washington, DC, where he completed an externship with the U.S. Department of State, assigned to the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Office of Policy Planning and Coordination (WHA/PPC). He became the first D.C.-based extern in that office to travel with a U.S. delegation abroad to serve as a Policy Analyst