An important and meaningful path for improving communities, and advocating for others. Be it law, communications, government, or contributing to a nonprofit organization, you can engage in work that improves lives. As with all career communities, several majors allow you to pursue these industries, each with its own unique spin on advocacy and allyship.
The following are commonly chosen majors, though any Willamette major can prepare you for a career in this community.
Government (local/city, state, federal), Businesses (as legal counsel), Nonprofit Organizations and NGOs, Schools (K-12), Schools (University or Community College)
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Career Development can support students seeking academic credit for internships. In order to earn internship credit, students must be enrolled in our Internship for Academic credit course.
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Major: Politics, Policy, Law & Ethics
Job: Health Policy Analyst, Minnesota Medical Association
Job Description: Offers research and administrative support for a statewide, nonprofit association of physicians, specifically by staffing four committees through which physician members draft and advocate for various healthcare reform efforts.
“You can have your cake (a passion-fulfilling career in the nonprofit/public sector) and eat it, too (make a living/comfortable wage), but it requires that you get in the kitchen early (relevant internship/work experience in college), and it requires that you follow the unique recipe for success in this anomaly of a sector (e.g., rolling with stringencies in government job postings, tying emotion to missions in job interviews, public sector networking, etc).”