Reona Alam from Castle Hill, a current freshman at Hunter College, doesn’t have a typical college student’s part-time job. Instead of babysitting or working retail, she is an intern with Council Member Shekar Krishnan’s office in Queens, getting a front-row seat to local politics in action.
Alam is the inaugural Public Service Intern for the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF), which established the internship to place young people into the offices of local government officials. As an alum of the organization’s Asian American Student Advocacy Project (ASAP), Alam already understood how to be a leader in her community and was more than willing to jump into Krishnan’s office representing Jackson Heights and Elmhurst.
