Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  Students Debating Policy at the RI National Conference Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today -- let us move forward with strong and active faith." — Franklin Roosevelt    Paul D Schneider School: Yale Member of: Community Health Gardens in Rwanda Core Chapters and Staff Center on Economic Policy Center on Education Center on the Environment Center on Security and Foreign Policy Socioeconomic Diversity in Higher Education Higher Education Conference Group Center on International Development Center on Public Health Steering Committee 2006-07 Yale Policy interests: Diversity, race, and opportunity, Education, Immigration, Religion, Social policy, Urban policy I'm a sophomore Sociology with Spanish major at Yale and right now I'm Co-Director of the Center on Education Policy through Fall term 2006, and Policy Director Elect for the Spring term of 2007.  I'm from the Chicago suburbs and I drink soda, not pop.  If you drink pop, you're making people laugh at the midwest.  Stop drinking pop. My interest in education policy was sparked by a leadership turnover in my high school that really turned the school around.  I'm still close with my old principal and a few department chairs and they advise me on education issues and keep me grounded when I think I'm too much of a bigshot, which is more often than is probably healthy.  I worked last summer with Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN) in New Haven on some policy research on charter schools and a project on the state-level implementation of No Child Left Behind.  Some of this research transferred over to the Center on Education Policy and got really really good because of the great people that contributed to it. This summer I'm hanging out in New Haven again, this time working as development director for a local non-profit (check out www.infonewhaven.com).  For 5 weeks somewhere in there I'll be in Costa Rica taking Spanish, hanging out on the beach, and drinking mojitos til sunrise.  In the meantime I'm helping to plan  A Seat at the Table: Socioeconomic Diversity and Access to Selective Colleges and Universities. Check it out!   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359