Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  The Policy Expo 2007 drew a full house of students and interested members of the public 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 "When you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." — Teddy Roosevelt    Jonathan Fantini Porter Your name: Your email: Recipient's name: Recipient's email: Message: To prevent spam, please enter the first letter of the recipient's email and the first letter of the recipient's name in the box below (for example, if the name is "John Doe" and the email is "bigjohn@johndoe.com", you would enter "jb"): School: Georgetown University Member of: Chapter Heads Jonathan Fantini Porter founded the Georgetown Roosevelt Institution and is currently policy director to U.S. Representative Joseph Sestak, the highest-ranking former military officer to have served in Congress. Prior to his involvement in the Roosevelt Institution, Jonathan and six college peers founded the Collegiate Forum- a youth leadership organization that encouraged young people to strengthen communities through civic engagement- and edited its publication The Podium.  Jonathan was a member of Georgetown's student investment fund; the crew team for a period; and, wrote for Georgetown's student newspaper. Jonathan was also student body president of his Southern California high school where he led a group that raised funds to provide running water and the first primary and secondary school to the rural community of Waslala, Nicaragua. In 2002, Jonathan was elected to serve as the youngest chairman of an advisory commission to the Speaker of the California State Assembly, Robert M. Hertzberg. In this role he oversaw four committees that provided legislative advise to the Speaker and was one of forty individuals invited to join nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's "Conference for Tomorrow's Leaders," where he was recipient of a grant by the Elie Wiesel Foundation. Jonathan has had held positions with Senator Edward Kennedy's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein; U.S. Representative Howard L. Berman; and, the office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney. Jonathan has lived and studied in Brazil, Canada and Germany, and speaks German and Spanish.   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