O’Neill “You work a lot more with live people than you do with dead people.” That’s how Makayla Morris describes her internship with the Marion County Coroner’s Office. Morris spent the summer there and is now joining their ranks as a deputy coroner after she was offered a position before she even has her… Read more »
Student highlights
Borst Fellowship opens doors to O’Neill grad students
To apply for the Borst Fellowship for the upcoming legislative session, contact O’Neill Career Advisor Stacy Lozer at slozer@iupui.edu. Jordan Lett became a Borst Fellow while pursuing his MPA at the O’Neill School. What began as a fellowship focused on fiscal impact led him directly into his current job for the state budget agency. “This… Read more »
Community Corps: A mission of community development
If Community Corps is SPEA’s division of community development specialists, then Marshawn Wolley is its general. And the general is on a mission. His mission began after several community development stakeholders approached SPEA, worried about the number of people pursuing community development jobs, the quality of that talent, and the field’s diversity. So Wolley got… Read more »
State Fair interns see plans in action
More than 900,000 people are expected to visit the Indiana State Fair during the next two weeks, with many lining up to watch this year’s center stage spectacle: the Big Top Circus. Much like what happens under that big top, most visitors will only see the magic of the fair and not the hard… Read more »
Bridging the Gaps
The campus of IUPUI may only be 20 miles from the Zionsville farm where Deirdre Kelley grew up, but it’s a world away from what she knew. Kelley lived out her childhood on a property with goats and chickens, homeschooled by her mother until textbooks became her teachers. “I thought it’d be really hard to… Read more »