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• LEAD Instructor- Your LEAD Instructor serves as your main point of contact during your time with TWC. Beyond instructing your Friday LEAD seminar, your LEAD instructor will conduct site visits, mediate internship concerns, and host office hours where you can ask any questions you may need to throughout the semester. This is specific to the Academic Internship Program. Students in other TWC programs will have a program manager that facilitates their additional programming. • LEAD- The LEAD (Leadership, Engagement, Achievement, and Development) Colloquium is your professionalism and career readiness seminar that you will take for 75 minutes each Friday. Conducted in small groups with your LEAD instructor, the LEAD curriculum is designed to supplement the internship with professional development work and career exploration activities. The LEAD Colloquium will culminate with the completion of a portfolio of your activities, work samples, and other information collected throughout your tenure with TWC. This is specific to the Academic Internship Program. Students in other programs will have sessions facilitated by their program manager. • Lobbying- Lobbying firms can be partisan, bi-partisan, or non-partisan, and work to advocate for specific legislation on behalf of a particular issue or industry. Interns at lobbying firms often do research on current or past legislation on a particular issue, attend congressional hearings, and write briefs on behalf of their offices. They will also regularly tackle administrative tasks. • Memo- A memo is an internal piece of writing that describes or summarizes work that you have been doing for your organization. They may be notice of a new policy change that affects an organization or changes to procedure within the organization. Many interns are responsible for drafting memos on behalf of their supervisors. • Metro- See WMATA • Mock Interview- A mock interview is a practice interview that you can do with your pre-arrival advisor or another member of our pre-arrival team. This is a great opportunity to practice interviewing techniques or try out questions that you might ask in a real interview setting. We will role play as the organization and ask questions that we believe that organization would actually ask in an interview setting. Afterward, we will provide you feedback about how we felt you did and how you can improve moving forward into the real interview. • NoMa- The NoMa neighborhood (North of Massachusetts Avenue) is the neighborhood in which our Residential Academic Facility is located and where the majority of our students live during their time in DC. • Non-partisan- Non-partisan means that an organization is typically apolitical and has no political leaning. • Non-Profit- A non-profit organization typically works to support a particular issue or group and generate awareness surrounding a particular cause. Students who want to do advocacy work and support a specific community or effort typically do well in the non-profit sector. The type of work accomplished at non-profit organizations can be anything from political advocacy to fundraising, from communications to management support. Non-profits often have no political orientation, though many non-profits are very political in their leaning. • Offer- An offer is an official invitation from an organization to join their team for the semester. While some organizations will give a verbal offer, most will give you the official offer in writing. If you are unsure if you have been extended an official offer, please contact your pre-arrival advisor to help clarify. • Pre-Arrival Advisor- Your pre-arrival advisor is TWC staff member that will assist you from the point that you are accepted into the program until you arrive here in Washington, DC. After an initial advising session to gauge your interests and learn more about you and your goals for the term, they will guide you through the internship matching process to find your internship. They will also help you with your resume, cover letter, or other application materials, and make sure you've taken care of everything TWC needs from you before you arrive. • Private Sector- Private sector organizations are revenue driven organizations that typically rely on making a profit in order to sustain their organization. They are frequently focused on profit growth and have limited other revenue sources (i.e. they don't receive government funding or donations). • Public Sector- Public sector organizations typically rely on providing services and are very frequently taxpayer driven or receive government funding or subsidies. All governmental organizations are public sector. • Residential Academic Facility (RAF)- The Residential Academic Facility, or RAF, is where you will live during your stay with TWC. You can find more information about the living accommodations here. You will also take your evening course and Friday LEAD sessions here. • Seminar- Beyond our flagship Academic Internship Program or Global Competencies programs, TWC offers a number of seminars between semesters. These seminars are intensive two-week courses around a particular topic featuring tours, site visits, and lectures from industry professionals. Upcoming seminar topics include national security, the 2020 political conventions, and Inside Washington, which focuses on the political innerworkings of the city. For more information about upcoming seminars, visit our program offerings. • SMLS- The Simpson-Mineta Leadership Series is an ongoing series of panel presentations where three www.twc.edu

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