Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  FDR Distinguished Public Service Award in Washington DC, April 9th, 2008. Photos by Nick Bradley. 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 "If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful." — Teddy Roosevelt    Lauren Young School: Stanford University Member of: Center on International Security Lauren Young came to Stanford from Saratoga, California, and she is currently a junior majoring in International Relations and Economics. She is a graduate of Summer Research College 2004 and has continued to work as a research assistant for Michael Tomz in the Political Science department. She is the financial officer of Stanford Mock Trial and the captain of her team, and she was a member of the team that placed in the top ten in the nation last year. She is also an internationally published poet. Her research for Joseph McNamara of the Hoover Institution increased her interest in the "war on drugs,” and she is also interested in education and international development and governance. This summer, she is going to Africa through an organization called Project FORGE to implement a project of her own design to teach rhetoric and creative writing in a refugee camp run by the United Nations. Her career plans vaguely involve working for the UN in a field related to international law and diplomacy.   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