By BJC Staff Reports
The Baptist Joint Committee is pleased to have two fall semester interns working alongside our staff in Washington, D.C.
Maya Boddie, a native of the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, graduated from Hampton University this May with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in strategic communications with a minor in Spanish. She served as local and world editor of The Hampton Script, the school newspaper. She is the daughter of Timothy “Tee” Boddie, general secretary of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, and Geulia Boddie, a high school counselor. Following her internship, Boddie plans to begin her career in communications, focusing on social justice and public policy.
Stephen Guzman, a native of Belleville, New Jersey, is currently in his final year as an undergraduate student at Rutgers University—Newark. He joins us as he pursues his Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in political science and minor in psychology. He previously served as an intern at the ACLU of New Jersey as well as Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a nonprofit organization dealing with immigration. Guzman plans to enter law school after graduating in 2017.
From the September/October 2016 edition of Report from the Capital. You can also read the digital version of the magazine or view it as a PDF.
