Tiffany Haverly is the Communications Director for Congressman Phil Roe, M.D.

DC has been so great to me over the past couple of years. I’ve been able to grow my passion for photography into a business and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without a little help from amazing people along the way. One such influencer is Ivory Zorich from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

Pallavi Damani Kumar is a full-time professor in American University’s School of Communication and the Division Director for the Public Communication. Ever since I graduated as an undergraduate from American University’s School of Communication, I wanted to teach in the program. I felt like AU helped me discover my true passion in public relations and strategic communication, and teaching was a way of giving back. Eight years after graduation, after working in New York and Philadelphia, I was headed back to DC, and my first goal was to fulfill a long-held dream of mine to teach in the Public Communication division.

We were inspired by Nathan Gonzales‘ sheer August creativity in coming up with 6 Things Losing Candidates Say, passed along by Shira Toeplitz. Here’s another take on his list: 5 things DC interns say: 1. I just won a happy hour at McFaddens! 2. No, I don’t just get them coffee, I’m really an …

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