General EPC Information

The Educational Program Coordinator is responsible for organizing an extensive calendar of educational, social and community service events for all Stanford students living in the Washington, DC area. A major part of this program includes a speaker series that features interesting Washington, DC contacts, such as members of Congress, journalists, and political appointees. Other summer activities will include social hours, Washington Nationals games, picnics, softball games, monument tours, and events with alumni. Additionally, to facilitate communication between all Stanford students in DC, the EPC is responsible for creating and advertising a DC Summer email list before the end of Spring quarter.

The EPC has a wide range of discretion in deciding which activities to plan, but in order to ensure accountability, s/he will be responsible for planning a minimum of eight speaker (or otherwise educational) events and a minimum of eight social or community service events. In order for something to qualify as an official event, it must require planning and be advertised as an official event, with adequate lead-time, to the DC Summer email list. A small budget is available to cover costs for any events.

The EPC will collaborate with the staff of the Stanford in Washington Program. Furthermore, SIG will provide the EPC with a manual created by former EPCs that will help with how to go about planning events and will provide ideas of what events took place in the past. At the end of the summer, the EPC is expected to put together a record of the events that s/he planned throughout the summer, and to update the "EPC Manual" for the next person to hold the job.

This position is part-time, and should be pursued in addition to a full-time internship or fellowship. The EPC will receive free room and board at the Stanford in Washington house as compensation.

EPC Summer 2008 Events

Educational/Speaker Events

• Global Health Panel: “AIDS and USAID: Sex and the Bureaucracy” in partnership with Princeton in Washington.
• Stanford Young Alumni in Government Panel featuring Alex Perkins (’95) working on the Trade Counsel to the House Ways and Means Committee representing the Legislative Branch , Josh Hawley (’02) working as a clerk to Chief Justice Roberts representing the Judicial Branch, and Fumie Griego (’96) working in the Office of Management and Budget representing the Executive Branch.
• Discussion with Senator Max Baucus of Montana
• Discussion with Robert Dallek, Author and SIW Professor: “What Goes into Effective Presidential Leadership”
• Discussion with Josh Bolten, White House Chief of Staff in the Press Briefing Room followed by a private tour of the West Wing
• Discussion with Congressman Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin
• Discussion with Anja Manuel (’96), Counsel at WilmerHale and former Special Assistant to Undersecretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, Department of State
• Discussion with Ruth Elliott (’98), Deputy Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Department of State
• Discussion with Rajiv Chandrasekaran (’94), National Editor for the Washington Post

Social Events

• Intercollegiate Mixer at Hawk & Dove with Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Rutgers.
• National’s Game with Stanford Alumni in DC
• Stanford in Washington Independence Day Barbeque
• Happy Hour with Cardinal Young Alumni in DC (CYADC)
• National’s Game with CYADC
• Screen on the Green: Superman (1978) with Stanford in Washington
• EPC Sponsored Brunch at Circa in Dupont Circle

2008 EPC Profile: Katelyn Baldwin

Katelyn Baldwin is a senior majoring in International Relations and minoring in African and Middle Eastern Languages. She speaks advanced Swahili and beginning Hebrew. Born and raised in the now infamous Wasilla, Alaska, she became active in grassroots political campaigns at an early age.  Katelyn arrived on campus in September of 2005 and got involved with student organizations like FACE AIDS, Stanford Journal of International Relations and Stanford in Government. During the summer of 2006, she worked in a Congolese refugee camp in northern Zambia with the NGO FORGE and the UNHCR implementing an HIV/AIDS awareness program. Today, she serves as the Vice Chair of Programming for Stanford in Government. Katelyn’s more significant Washington, DC experiences include an internship in the U.S. Senate during the summer of 2005 and an internship with the Department of State in the Office of the Chief of Protocol during the summer of 2008, where she lived in the Stanford in Washington house and served as the EPC.

As for what attracted her to serve as the EPC, Katelyn states it best:

“My first encounter with Washington, DC left me enthralled with the city and hungering for more. Through various internships, student trips and vacations to the District, my eyes have been opened to the infinite opportunities this city has to offer. Every time I stay in DC, I leave feeling anything is possible. My interest to serve as the EPC stems from my recognition of the endless experiences DC has to offer young people, and my desire to share them with my fellow students, leaving them feeling as passionate and excited about the city as I have always felt.”

2007 EPC Profile: Megan Stacy

Megan Stacy is a senior majoring in American Studies and pursuing a co-terminal Master's degree in Sociology. Initially hailing from Southern California, she arrived on campus and immediately became very active in the Stanford community's political life through positions in the Roosevelt Institution, the Stanford Democrats, and local political campaigns. By the start of her junior year, this interest in politics pushed her to Washington, DC, where she participated in Stanford in Washington and interned at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In the summer of 2006, she returned to serve as a research assistant for Ronald Brownstein, a journalist with the Los Angeles Times who was on leave to write a book. She returns once again in the summer of 2007 to intern with Senator Ted Kennedy's Director of National Finance.

As for what attracts her to the part-time EPC position, Megan states it best:

"Since my first stay in Washington, DC, I have felt a fascination, curiosity, and infatuation with the city. I am certain that this is due in large part to the exceptional job that Stanford programs do in introducing students to all that the District has to offer, from enabling us to meet with high-level officials to exposing us to the finest in arts culture, while maintaining an element of fun as we learn to navigate the DC social scene. I am eager to join the SIG and SIW staff members in perpetuating a Washington experience no other university can match. I am excited to make the Washington experience as positively addictive for other Stanford students as it has remained for me."