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The Virtual Student Federal Service (VSFS) held their Virtual Intern of the Year Awards on May 31, 2023. In support of this event, the Robertson Foundation for Government partnered with the VSFS Program to highlight the important contributions of virtual student interns to Federal Government initiatives. As part of that support, RFG gave cash awards to the VSFS Interns of the Year. The recipients of these awards included seven students who were recognized for their work with agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In addition, RFG gave cash awards to two students who received the Virtual Intern Project of the Year Award for their contributions on the Afghanistan Lessons Learned project with the U.S. Department of State.

In April 2023, RFG Fellow, JaKyah Beatty (UMD, 2024), returned from her travels abroad as a Boren Fellow studying Swahili in Tanzania. While abroad, JaKyah had the opportunity to learn a critical language, progressing from having no prior knowledge of Swahili to reaching an advanced intermediate fluency in the language after nine months of intensive study and immersion. She also had the chance to deepen her knowledge of international development efforts taking place in Eastern Africa, which is an aspect of her experience that ties not only into her professional background, but also her long-term ambitions of working in the global development field. In the following piece, JaKyah highlights different aspects of her experience as a Boren Fellow, including lessons learned, the rigorousness of her foreign language study, and how this experience has influenced her career goals. 

The Boren Fellowship is a long-established initiative that provides funding for research and language study proposals by U.S. graduate students in world regions critical to U.S. interests. JaKyah is among a growing legacy of RFG Fellows, who have been selected as Boren Fellows. To date, more than 15 RFG Fellows have been selected for this prestigious award and have studied a diverse array of foreign languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, and Swahili. In fact, two new RFG Fellows, Cody Arigo and Jackson Rice are currently preparing to embark on their studies abroad in India and Taiwan respectively. For JaKyah, she chose to study Swahili in Tanzania because of her professional background working with a social enterprise in Uganda in 2018. She expressed that “I learned so much from that experience after undergrad and wanted to go back [to the region] with my increased knowledge of development.”  She added that she was also excited to have the opportunity to learn a critically essential language that she might not otherwise have had the chance to learn without spending significant time in East Africa. 

When applying for the Boren Fellowship in 2022, JaKyah felt that her previous experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Fiji made her more competitive. She leveraged the fact that she already had experience learning another foreign language in preparation for her service with the Peace Corps. She also underscored her background working in East Africa and her adaptability and hard-working nature. Thinking back to her application, JaKyah shared how she emphasized the skills that the Boren Fellowship values, including her “passion for the country and language and how the experience would make her a better public service employee.”

Her experience of learning a foreign language for the Peace Corps definitely was helpful as JaKyah adjusted to four-hour long, daily language classes while living in Tanzania. These classes were intensive and intimate with there being only four students per teacher. In addition to these classes, JaKyah participated in two-hour long sessions twice a week with conversation partners, who were representatives from the local community and college. She shares that these “conversation partner sessions were fun because we could watch movies in Swahili together, listen to music, and learn words and phrases used in non-academic contexts.” JaKyah discusses how her Boren experience also included field trips, culture, and history classes once a week to further her understanding of Tanzania. Outside of the classroom, JaKyah lived with a host family, who was not allowed to speak English to her, helping her to learn how to express her basic needs quickly upon arrival in the country. 

An integral aspect of her foreign language learning was the local community. She shares how willing people in the community were to speak Swahili with her, despite her initially limited understanding of the language. “I felt like people I met in markets or around town generally encouraged me to continue learning the language,” JaKyah remembers. “This made me feel like I had a hundred teachers.” Despite this encouragement, JaKyah admits that she struggled with finding the confidence to be okay with making mistakes in Swahili. “Learning a new language is difficult,” JaKyah comments. “Pushing past the embarrassment of feeling like I knew nothing all the time was very challenging in the beginning.” She describes Swahili as a hard language to learn given it has nine or ten noun classes and agreements, making remembering which words go with each other difficult and a process she is still mastering. Despite these difficulties, JaKyah rose to the challenge reaching an advanced intermediate fluency in the language before departing Tanzania earlier this spring. 

JaKyah shares that her experience as a Boren Fellow has been an extremely positive one and that she would wholeheartedly recommend it to other RFG Fellows. For those interested in this incredible opportunity, she encourages them to “think deeply about why you want to participate in the program and have clear professional and personal goals associated with your language and country of choice.” Given being involved in the local community is an integral aspect of the Boren experience, JaKyah recommends that those seeking to be a Boren Fellow look into NGOs that interest them and community spaces and activities relevant to the area where they are applying. “The more effort you put in before the program, the more you will gain from it in the end,” JaKyah states. 

With her Boren Fellowship complete, JaKyah is now turning her attention back to school and her long-term career goals. She will be returning this Fall semester to complete her graduate studies at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and is expected to graduate from the program in the Spring of 2024. Career-wise, JaKyah is considering two potential paths. The first is applying to Federal Government agencies in the international trade policy arena so that she can be actively involved in the implementation of socially inclusive trade laws that guard against any potentially negative social or environmental impacts for the populations they affect. The second is applying to serve as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, either in the field of Public Diplomacy or Economics. “The Public Diplomacy Officer position interests me because it entails building bridges of understanding between Americans and the rest of the world,” JaKyah states. This mission connects directly to her previous service with the Peace Corps, where a large portion of her role was to share American culture with local communities in Fiji, while also learning about Fijian culture and bringing it home to share with her fellow Americans. JaKyah comments, “I believe that developing mutual cultural understanding is imperative to continuing strong foreign policy and foreign relations.” Her interest in the Economic Officer position with the U.S. Foreign Service is rooted in her desire to work with other countries on environmental and economic development issues in underdeveloped or newly emerging countries. 

JaKyah remains extremely grateful for the opportunity to be a Boren Fellow. She shares how ultimately, she was able to broaden her knowledge of Swahili, East Africa, and international development through this experience, while also cultivating skills that will be instrumental to her future career in public service. Of great importance to her as well is the fact that she contributed to paving the way for other students of color to pursue similar experiences in the international affairs field, “a domain where these students are typically underrepresented,” JaKyah describes. The daughter of a U.S. military family, a former Peace Corps Volunteer, and now a RFG and Boren Fellow, JaKyah exemplifies a passion for public service, foreign language learning, and international affairs, and she is steadfast in her dedication to pursuing these areas not only for herself, but for future generations to come.

The Class of 2024 Robertson Fellows have finished their first year of graduate school and are embarking upon their summer internships, focused on furthering their careers in public service. This year, Fellows are interning at agencies as diverse as the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, U.S. State Department, and the U.S. Treasury Department. Two RFG Fellows, Olivia Parker (UMD, 2024) and Jackson Rice (UCSD, 2024) are interning in Hawaii with the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, while RFG Fellow, Melissa Alvisi (Maxwell, 2024) is spending the summer in Singapore, interning for the Commercial Service.  

In addition to their internship experiences, these Fellows will have the opportunity to attend a series of professional development events hosted by the Partnership for Public Service’s Call to Serve Network. These events are designed to strengthen their skills and broaden their professional networks in the Federal Government. As part of these events, RFG Fellows will network with members of the Partnership for Public Service’s Rosenthal Fellowship and Future Leaders in Public Service program. Along with these professional development opportunities, the RFG Fellows interning in Washington, DC this summer will have the chance to network with RFG Alumni and members of the U.S. Foreign Service community through RFG-hosted, in-person events at the DACOR Bacon House. 

RFG looks forward to sharing more about their summer experiences and highlighting their stories this Fall.

This quarter we connected with RFG Alum, R. Taylor Moore (UMD, 2013), who has worked for the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service (Commercial Service) for nearly a decade. Taylor’s career with the Commercial Service has included overseas postings in China and Mozambique and service stateside in Washington, DC and Houston, Texas. Currently, Taylor is the Senior Commercial Officer for the U.S. Embassy in Mozambique, where he leads the Commercial Section. 

The Commercial Service, which is a part of a U.S. Department of Commerce bureau called the International Trade Administration, supports American exporters – especially small and medium-sized enterprises – with entering and expanding in international markets. It also works to address overseas barriers to American exports, help U.S. companies win foreign government tenders, and attract inward investment. As Taylor explains, “Companies operating overseas often lack the same legal protections as they do in the United States and often face headwinds in entering or operating overseas, and the Commercial Service fills that void.” Located in more than 80 markets and over 100 domestic offices, Commercial Officers often serve as the first point of contact for American exporters to access other agencies, from the Patent and Trademark Office and Small Business Administration to funding agencies like the U.S. Trade and Development Agency and the U.S. Export-Import Bank. 

When reflecting on what initially interested him in the Commercial Service, Taylor recounts two specific memories. He first learned about the U.S. Commercial Service when working for Maryland’s Economic Development Office in Shanghai. During a trade mission to China in 2010, he had the opportunity to hear from a Commercial Service Officer who accompanied the team from Baltimore. He also had the chance to meet the head of the Commercial Section based at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, who spoke at an event during the delegation’s stay in China. This initial exposure was reinforced when he began his studies at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. There, he served as a graduate assistant for Professor Susan Schwab, who had previously worked as Assistant Secretary for Global Markets and Director General of the Commercial Service. These individuals deepened his interest in the Commercial Service, and also encouraged him to apply. As Taylor recounts, “I liked the idea of working in a pragmatic role to support American exports and jobs back in the United States.” 

When applying for the Commercial Service, Taylor remembers how important it was to have work and management experience under his belt. “An essential part of this job is managing local staff who spend years developing their local industry expertise and knowledge, and without whom we could not function,” Taylor explains. The fact that he had begun his career working in quality control for a U.S. company in China, helping with production and a factory there, and that he had gained trade promotion experience working with the State of Maryland on its relationship with China both proved essential when applying to the Commercial Service. These experiences allowed Taylor to begin developing the ability to multitask, coordinate among competing priorities, navigate challenges creatively, work in a multicultural setting, and manage a team effectively. 

Since joining, each post has been a learning opportunity, according to Taylor. As a junior officer in Beijing, he already had experience with the language and culture, so he was able to really focus on the tradecraft and leverage the large Commercial Service presence at that posting. He learned from his colleagues on everything – from how to conduct specific tasks to how to shape and direct his career. In his next post in Shenyang, China, Taylor led the office as the Principal Commercial Officer, which is the head of a commercial section in a consulate. When posted later to a domestic position in Houston, Texas, Taylor had the chance to connect with and better understand the agency’s domestic operations, at least until COVID-19 locked everything down. An upside of the lockdown, Taylor shares, is that he met and married his wife Brenda, in Houston, finding some work-life balance that had been missing. Now in Mozambique, Taylor is learning how the Commercial Service’s operations look in a very different part of the world. As Taylor describes, “We face a different set of challenges and opportunities here from what I knew in China, and – with the grace and patience of my staff and more Africa-experienced colleagues – I would like to think I have learned a lot.”

As Taylor enters his final year in Mozambique, he has a couple of initiatives that he would like to achieve. First, Taylor’s team is sending a large delegation of over 30 people to trade shows in the United States. As Taylor explains, “We hit upon a huge amount of interest in bringing new business models to Mozambique through franchising last year – especially in hospitality and tourism – and my team has done wonderful work building on that into large delegations going to the National Restaurant Association Show in May and the International Franchise Expo in June.” Second, he would like to execute a reverse trade mission – bringing potential buyers and decisionmakers to the U.S. – in agricultural processing machinery to assist Mozambique’s plans to build value-added, commercial-scale agriculture. Finally, Taylor hopes that his agency’s support for the Mozambique Gas and Energy Summit in September could help launch several initiatives for the coming year in not only natural gas – which the country has in abundance – but also in critical minerals mining. “This is an area where the U.S. has a lot of room to collaborate with Mozambique,” Taylor adds. 

When asked what he enjoys most about his job, Taylor shared that “satisfaction in this job comes from our metrics and the testimonials from our clients.” He continues, stating that he “can point to specific projects or companies’ successes that we have here and tie them to export amounts and jobs supported in the United States.” On the flipside, Taylor admits that the job’s challenges often come from competing priorities, whether those be from the Department of Commerce, the embassy, the local government, or companies and organizations he is working with, which he subsequently must navigate with tact.

When thinking about the challenges of his work, Taylor shared an example of the tradecraft and perseverance that he and his team have had to implement in the past. In 2018, despite extensive outreach and groundwork laid for a winter sports-themed event in Jilin and Harbin – the epicenters of skiing and ice hockey in China, respectively – recruitment for the event failed. Outreach through various global industry teams initially received strong positive responses, but the event ultimately failed to attract U.S. company commitments. This was a big blow to the office, Taylor remembers, but in the end, he was able to both draw positive lessons and find trade opportunities amid this situation. Local partners, including the First Hospital of Harbin, all pointed to acute needs for sports therapy in China, and he and his team made introductions to American sports medicine institutions. Furthermore, by maintaining the relationship with the hospital and by facilitating a visit by then-U.S. Ambassador Terry Branstad during his visit to the region, Taylor and his team were able to connect local Chinese partners to a U.S. medical equipment company that ultimately resulted in the export of $200 million in U.S. proton cancer-therapy equipment. Overcoming this challenging situation was a point of pride for Taylor and his team members. 

Taylor attributes a good portion of his success as a Commercial Service Officer to his graduate studies at the University of Maryland. His courses on economic, political, and policy contexts enable him today to counsel clients more holistically and to better coordinate his work with other parts of the U.S. Government. Thinking back on his graduate education, Taylor explains how being selected as an RFG Fellow made it much easier for him to go back to school and complete his career transition to the public sector. The Foundation’s support for his summer internship also enabled him to take a position with the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office, which stretched into an eight-month stay and broadened his perspective on U.S. trade policy processes. 

Given his incredible career with the Commercial Service and his experience as an RFG Fellow, Taylor strongly encourages other RFG Fellows to consider applying to serve as Commercial Service Officers. “The Commercial Service presents an opportunity to work at a very practical level with companies on how to enter and expand in markets outside of their legal and cultural framework,” Taylor states. He emphasizes that “it can be very motivating to be able to point to concrete examples where your work has supported success for U.S. companies and jobs at home that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.” Taylor also highlights the many benefits of the Commercial Service, including exposure to foreign cultures, interesting work, and great benefits for families. Overall, Taylor has led a fulfilling career with the Commercial Service that is far from over and he is excited for other RFG Fellows and Alumni to join him in this important and engaging work.

The Robertson Foundation for Government is proud to recognize the graduating Class of 2023! This class includes Jacob Emont, Paul-Donavon Murray, and Kelli Sunabe, RFG Fellows from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; Emily Ashbridge, Christina Baker, and Chase Burciaga, RFG Fellows from Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service; Elisabeth Earley and Peter Wilborn, RFG Fellows from the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy; and Naomi Atughonu and Meg Whinna, RFG Fellows from the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. These highly qualified, committed, globally-aware individuals are beginning careers dedicated to serving the public in agencies such as the U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. State Department. These Fellows also include a PhD Candidate at George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, two Presidential Management Fellows (PMFs), and a Fellow who recently passed the U.S. Foreign Service examination process. RFG is excited to welcome these Fellows as Alumni and to follow their exciting careers in public service!

 

The Robertson Foundation for Government (RFG) is thrilled to announce the Dr. Schneider Professional Writing Award. This award recognizes the incredible contributions of Dr. Michael Schneider, who has served as a career advisor to RFG Fellows and Alumni for several years and whose talent and passion for writing has enriched Robertson Fellows’ understanding of global and domestic public policies. This award is designed to showcase the writing abilities and talent of RFG Fellows and Alumni on topics pertaining to Federal Government service, public policy, and international affairs.

Both RFG Fellows and Alumni are eligible to apply for this award on a quarterly basis and a winning piece will be selected each quarter and recognized by RFG on its various communication platforms. At the end of the year, the author of the top submission will receive a financial award in recognition of his/her achievement.

 

 

The Robertson Foundation for Government (RFG) is proud to recognize three Robertson Fellows who have been selected as Presidential Management Fellows (PMF)  Class of 2023 Finalists! Congratulations to  Emily Ashbridge (Bush, 2023), Jacob Emont (Maxwell, 2023), and Cate Pollock (UCSD, 2022) for this outstanding achievement!

The PMF Program is the Federal Government’s premier leadership development program for advanced degree holders. As Finalists, Emily, Jacob, and Cate will have the opportunity to be appointed to a two-year, full-time Federal position with salary and benefits, where they will apply their skills while engaging in leadership development training that includes experiential learning, cohort-based interactive training, and optional rotational experiences.

Each of these Fellows had to undergo a rigorous application process, including an online, multi-part assessment and a panel interview. Of the 10,000 individuals who applied for the PMF Program this year, Emily, Jacob, and Cate are among the 850 selected  Finalists. They join a network of more than 35 Robertson Fellows, who have also been selected as PMF Finalists since 2011. RFG toasts these Fellows on their accomplishment and looks forward to following their public service careers in the U.S. Government.

This quarter we reconnected with RFG Fellow, Kelli Sunabe (Maxwell, 2023), who recently completed a Boren Fellowship experience in Taipei, Taiwan. Kelli lived in Taiwan for approximately nine months as a Boren Fellow, studying Mandarin Chinese and deepening her knowledge of Taiwanese culture and the island’s relations with Mainland China. In the following piece, Kelli chronicles the victorious and challenging aspects of her Boren Fellowship. 

The Boren Fellowship is a long-established initiative that provides funding for research and language study proposals by U.S. graduate students in world regions critical to U.S. interests. Kelli joins a growing legacy of RFG Fellows, who have been selected as Boren Fellows. To date, more than 15 RFG Fellows have been selected for this prestigious award and have studied a diverse array of foreign languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, and Swahili. Kelli chose to study Mandarin Chinese because of her academic background in U.S.-Asian relations and because of her previous experience studying the language in China as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She shared how her studies of the language in China had been cut short by the onset of COVID-19 and how appreciative she was to restart these studies as a Boren Fellow in Taiwan.

As a Boren Fellow, Kelli chose to study at an intensive immersion language school, where students were only allowed to speak Mandarin on school grounds and attended class every weekday for four hours, followed by 4-5 hours of homework designed to accelerate their understanding and proficiency in the language. She describes how she had to give five minute long speeches 2-3 times per week in addition to her other homework assignments in an effort to strengthen her oral communication skills. One element of her school that Kelli really appreciated was that all of the classes had a small class size of four students maximum, which enriched her connections with her classmates and ensured the teachers were aware of each student’s progress. 

In addition to her language courses, Kelli shared that one of the elements of her Boren experience that she really enjoyed was advancing her language abilities enough to be able to carry out conversations with local people and learn about their stories through their language. She remembers riding on a long-distance bus from the top of a mountain down to a coastal city and meeting an elderly woman who was from the indigenous group of that mountain area. She shares that the two of them were able to pick up a conversation naturally by speaking Mandarin Chinese, and as a result, she was able to learn about the woman’s childhood, career, family, and even her political views. She resolutely states that “this experience could not have happened if I did not speak Mandarin Chinese.”

Kelli also recounts some of the more difficult aspects of her Boren experience. She shares that “although it was challenging as political tensions between the People’s Republic of China (China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) intensified with the islands being surrounded by the People’s Liberation Army, I learned a lot from the Taiwanese people about democracy and grit.” She continues, “I am very grateful for the opportunity to have lived there while I did and to have met kind people who shared openly with me.”

Looking back to when she first departed for her Boren Fellowship, Kelli feels a sense of achievement as she was able to fulfill her two main goals for this fellowship program. The first of these goals was to achieve a higher proficiency in Mandarin Chinese. Before leaving for Taiwan, her proficiency was at a low elementary level and she was unable to read or write in Chinese characters. Now she has acquired an intermediate proficiency level and can communicate using a strong variety of Chinese characters. Her second goal was to gain a better understanding of the divergences in vocabulary, phrases, and cultural references between the Mandarin used in Taiwan versus Mainland China. She hoped that by becoming educated about these differences she would have a fuller grasp of these nuances and their impact on discussions related to governmental policies, political rhetoric, and citizens’ perspectives on geo-politics. Witnessing firsthand some of the political tensions between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan and being able to use her increased proficiency in the language to understand these political tensions has left Kelli feeling that she has taken concrete steps towards this goal and it has energized her to deepen her fluency in the language moving forward. 

Looking ahead, Kelli is currently working on completing her final semester at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. Upon graduation this summer, she aims to find employment with the Departments of State, Labor, or Energy. Overall, she wants to secure a position working on U.S. engagement efforts in Asia, stating, “I hope to contribute a thoughtful perspective on U.S. relations with Asia, and specifically China, that applies my experiences in Taiwan and China and my ability to speak Mandarin Chinese.” She underscores that a career in public service is very important to her. “My Peace Corps China service ingrained in me that a career in public service is the route for me,” Kelli explains. Moreover, she cites her upbringing, sharing, “My parents were both educators and dedicated to serving our local community. Their hard work and dedication inspired me to want to serve in some capacity as well.” She concludes with gratitude for both the Boren Fellowship and the Robertson Foundation for Government for affording her the opportunity to advance her education and pursue a career in this field.

On February 6, 2023, RFG joined with representatives of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to host a careers information session for Robertson Fellows. The session began with a presentation by DFC Human Resources Specialists, Samantha Miller and Nicole Smith, which provided an overview of the agency’s  mission and work, recent recruitment efforts and hiring priorities, and the various internship and employment opportunities within the agency.

In particular, the DFC aims  to recruit approximately 200 new employees by the end of September 2023, including  interns, full time civil service employees, and personal services contractors. The agency offers both paid and unpaid internships and recruits recent graduates through the Pathways Recent Graduate Program and the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program. The presenters highlighted where such positions are advertised and offered recommendations for applying.  

The session also featured  a panel discussion  with three DFC employees,  Shirin Jamshidi, Director of Investment for the Asia and Middle East North Africa Team and International Economists, Alexander MacDonald and Sean Ramos. The panelists spoke about their experiences with the agency, including international travel and professional development opportunities, the skills needed to be a competitive applicant, and the nature of career progression at the DFC. 

A number of  Robertson Fellows and Alumni have interned and worked for the DFC. Most recently, RFG Fellow, Elisabeth Earley (UCSD, 2023) interned with the Office of Development Policy, where she worked closely with the Office’s Impact Management, Monitoring, and Learning division to review, clean, and verify data related to the agency’s efforts to promote women’s entrepreneurship, leadership, and workforce representation. Given the positive and enriching experiences of RFG Fellows and Alumni thus far, the Foundation was pleased to host this event in collaboration with agency representatives to promote DFC career opportunities for future RFG Fellows and Alumni.

On March 7-10, 2023, the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) hosted the 2023 Public & International Service Advisor (PISA) Spring Training Workshops, welcoming 80 new advisors to the PISA Network. 

APSIA’s PISA Network brings together undergraduate and community college advisors across the United States to advance their understanding of the professions of international affairs, public policy, and public administration on their campuses. The PISA Network provides support for and recognition of advisors as they counsel students to pursue careers in all of these fields. It also serves as a communication channel between campuses and the associations of graduate schools of international affairs, public policy, and public administration

The 2023 Spring Training Workshops began with a look at the vast career opportunities across the field of international affairs. Attendees heard from a diverse panel of international affairs professionals including a Foreign Affairs Officer for the US Department of State, a Manager at the C40 Centre for City Climate Policy & Economy, and a Policy Analyst at Atlas Public Policy.

The following day included a panel discussion on “Comparing Graduate Degrees & Mapping Financial Aid,” which examined the distinctions between international affairs, public policy, public administration, and other professional degrees. The discussion also provided ways that advisors can help students understand the different possibilities for financial aid. 

The final panel focused on how students can articulate their experiences and stand out in applications. Panelists shared best practices in writing cover letters, statements of purpose, and personal statements. APSIA concluded the week with a look at what APSIA is and how the PISA Network assists advisors. 

RFG is a proud sponsor and participant in the PISA Network training workshops. To learn more about APSIA’s 2023 PISA Spring Training Workshops, please click here.