Christoph Demers (MPPA ’15) and Garine Roubinian (MPPA ’15) are the first CPPA students to receive support from the newly established Barnard Family Fund.
Demers is working this summer as an intern at the National Priorities Project, an organization in Northampton, Mass., dedicated to making the federal budget more transparent through research and communications, so people can prioritize and influence how their tax dollars are spent.
Roubinian is spending her summer interning with the Springfield-based Wellspring Collaborative, a creative economic development project directed by CPPA lecturer Fred Rose that draws on the purchasing power of the area’s largest employers to provide a market for new, worker-owned companies.
The Barnard Family Fund was created earlier this year through a generous gift from Richard Barnard (BS ’76, MPA ’86) and supports students who are working to advance progressive causes.