Eden Siskind '18

scholar

  âRefugee history has been very interesting to me my whole life because my
grandfather sought refuge in   the United States after the Holocaust. After
being accepted to intern with HIAS, I was very nervous that I   wouldnât be
able to afford to travel in and out of DC twice a week. The metro is fairly
expensive, and on   top of that I did not have enough money to buy
professional clothes for the internship. I am very grateful   that because of
the Bright Futures Unpaid Internship Scholarship I am able to successfully
intern in DC   this semester. As the advocacy and policy intern for HIAS, I
work directly with the advocacy vice president   on various tasks relating to
public policy. Most recently, I staffed an International Religious Freedom
  Roundtable discussion at the Cannon building with my boss and was able
to meet Senator Marco Rubio.â   -Eden Siskind, HIAS