Melissa Graham - Entry 1
Please describe your first week in Washington, D.C.
I was whisked away to a city where people literally save the world and where I can be a part of that. I've made so many connections and friends who share my principles and contacts who genuinely care about my future.
We are the movers and shakers. We can move ahead through education, we can better our hometowns with perseverance, and we can revolutionize America by civic activism.
Sure enough, I'm bringing these tools home with me. I'm rising above my own expectations, organizing communities, and seeing life-changing legislation. I've been taught how to truly listen to advocates, catalyze communities, make lasting impressions, and navigate subways (without getting hopelessly lost).
I'm half expecting to hop into a phone-booth and don a cape tomorrow.
