Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  University of Michigan Roosevelt members at the Roosevelt Relief: Hurricane Katrina Launch Event 2007 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 "Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much." — Teddy Roosevelt    Julie Nguyen School: University of California, Davis Member of: Health Policy Coordination Socioeconomic Diversity in Higher Education Contact info: Contact Email:  jnguye at ucdavis.edu Policy interests: Economic policy, Fair and clean politics, Healthcare, International development, Poverty and social justice, Responsible business practices, Social policy, Sustainability, Urban policy Julie Nguyen is an economics and art history major with a background in world politics and sociology. Most of her interests lie within the interaction of economic policy , political participation, and social instutitions. She is a current junior scholar of the McNair Scholars Program, an undergraduate program to assist in diversifying graduate education.  She started her undergraduate career at the University of Southern Mississippi, then San Diego Community College before transferring to UC Davis. As an honors program transfer student hoping to contribute to the best ideas regarding progressive policies, she hopes to change the world one idea at a time. If not politics and economics, then let there be art, music and architecture to lead us to a greater society. Julie hopes to soon enter a PhD program in economic development to teach the young minds of tomorrow. Upon her inception into academic circles, she plans to open an art gallery in her hometown of San Diego.   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