COUNCIL ON HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS
Tiffany Isaacs

A National Dean’s List student and Collegiate All-American Scholar from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Tiffany Isaacs also attended Santa Barbara City College in California. Tiffany worked at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University as a research assistant, and she was named Student of the Year by Phi Theta Kappa. Tiffany won the Morris and Irma Hurkowitz Honors Program Award and the James S. Bower Academic Achievement Award; she was also nominated for the All-USA Academic Team. Tiffany earned highest honors in philosophy and English literature, and she speaks Spanish and French. She worked at Save Darfur as a volunteer, as a teacher at Rhode Island Children’s Crusade where she helped at-risk high-school students and assisted with college applications, and as a negotiator at Santa Barbara City College. Tiffany was elected to be a student representative at Reverential Ecology: Earth, Soul, and Society, and at Peter A. Angeles Colloquia she coordinated a year-long lecture series. At Emmaus Tiffany was an administrative assistant who also edited a newsletter and print advertisements, and she served as director of public relations at E-Filing where she ran a national media campaign. Tiffany was a government reporter for Valley Voice; she participated in Brown Outdoor Leadership Training (BOLT); was chapter president of Phi Theta Kappa; and was managing editor of The Channels in Santa Barbara where she wrote weekly pieces, managed a staff of twenty, and won statewide writing competitions.Tiffany’s international experience included extensive travel to France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, England, Scotland, Mexico, and Canada (with plans for South-East Asia in 2007). She requested an internship in international relations. Tiffany was applying for graduate work at Oxford University in England; Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and George Washington University in D.C. when she applied to the Washington Internship Program on May 10, 2006 after missing virtually all deadlines for summer internships. Within six days, the Washington Internship Program placed Tiffany at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, which the Princeton Review identified as one of the most impressive internships in Washington. Tiffany worked there from July through October while living at Summit Hills Apartments run by the Washington Internship Program. Tiffany followed in the footsteps of WIP’s last intern, from Princeton University, who excelled at COHA. In December Tiffany was planning to visit Rwanda for three weeks to study genocide through Global Youth Connect. 

            Located on M Street, N.W., the Council on Hemispheric Affairs concentrates on matters pertaining to North and South America. As one of thirty-five interns in the summer and fifteen during the fall, Tiffany wrote seven pieces – all of which were published in newspapers, journals, or websites during her first two months on the job, after which she was promoted to the position of office manger in charge of twenty-five staff members. Tiffany’s favorite part of the internship was writing a rebuttal to a newspaper article by President George Bush describing America’s drug policy in Central and South America. She also drafted a piece on the U.N. Security Council. Tiffany edited articles written by others, taught writing workshops, and handled business matters like paying bills and setting up media interviews for the head of COHA at CNN, FOX News, the BBC, and other television networks. She accompanied her supervisor to many of these events along with briefings and parties at places like the Embassy of Venezuela (on its Independence Day celebration), Smithsonian Museums, and the Danish News Service. Tiffany attended hearings and subcommittee meetings in the House of Representatives and Senate, and she went to think-tanks like the Brookings Institute for a meeting on Latin America. Tiffany worked about sixty hours a week at what she described as “an amazing opportunity to write materials, 75 percent of which were printed in newspapers across the country."
           
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