The Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) is pleased to announce the following students for the 2007 APAICS Summer Internship Program.   President and CEO William H. (Mo) Marumoto stated, “that the competition was tough because of the quality of the students’ high grades.  That, and factoring in other requirements such as outside activities with other Asian Pacific American (APA) organizations either on campus or off, made the selection difficult.”  The program begins on June 4, 2007, and goes for eight weeks.

The 2007 APAICS Summer Internship Program recipients are:

Melanie Abe                                                                             Gene Kim

Major:  Political Science                                                           Rhetoric/Sociology

Whittier College                                                                        University of California at Berkeley

Ekta Asnani                                                                              Gloria Mak

Major:  Business                                                                       Legal Studies/Sociology

University of Maryland                                                  Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

Parasa Chanramy                                                                     Atasi Satpathy

Undeclared                                                                               Brain Behavior/Cognitive Science

Lewis and Clark College                                                           University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Jane Chen                                                                                Norman Wang

Major:  Political Science/International Relations             Economics/International Studies

Duke University                                                                        Northwestern University

Nitt Chuenprateel

International Relations/Chemistry

Claremont McKenna College                                       

The APAICS Summer Internship Program encourages Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) college students and recent college graduates to pursue careers in public service by providing opportunities to participate in the federal government and in the public policy-making process.  The high caliber of the interns and their host offices has earned the APAICS Summer Internship Program a prestigious reputation in the Washington D.C., community.

All the students will be placed before they arrive for their eight- week program in the Washington area.  They will also have a chance to network with other summer interns from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which make up the Tri-caucus activities.