The Maine Center for Economic Policy welcomes graduate and undergraduate student interns for summer, fall, and spring terms. Students from programs in Economics, Social Work, Political Science, Governmental Affairs, Environmental Studies, Women’s Studies, Public Policy and Media/Communications who are interested in focusing on state economic and public policy would find a relevant experience with MECEP.

Student interns may be based in our Augusta office or may work from other locations.

Activities include:

• helping with public policy research projects
• identification and collection of research materials
• monitoring legislative hearings and work sessions
• helping to edit and distribute agency publications
• data entry for survey results
• participation in statewide conferences and coalition meetings

Students are supervised by a Master’s level Field Instructor at the Center. Other supervision in the student’s related field may be arranged outside the Center. Internships are generally unpaid.

Interested applicants should submit a resume and writing sample to info@mecep.org.

Previous Interns

Carol Huges-Hallett interned in summer 2007 and interviewed foreign-born immigrants for a project on their employment impact on the Maine economy. She was a junior at the University of Maine.

Caitlin Carroll interned in summer 2007 and worked on qualitative interviews with home care providers, data gathering for the Maine Revenue and Spending Primer, and research on rural adult workforce development. She was a freshman at Tufts University.

Shana Stillman interns in 2006 and worked on a data report about women in the Maine economy using newly available Local Employment Dynamics data. She was an economics student at the University of Southern Maine.

Melissa Bailey interned in summer 2001 and helped on the 2001 livable wage calculations, case studies of current and former welfare recipients in Maine, and a renewable energy project. She was an environmental studies major from Bowdoin College.

Aaron Henckler interned in January 2002 and gathered data on direct care health sector workers' wages and helped on the 2001 livable wage calculations. He was an economics major from Colby College.

Wade Kavanaugh interned in the summers of 1999 and 2000 and did data research and calculations for MECEP’s livable wage report and for a report on tourism wages. He also studied the changing ownership patterns of Maine’s manufacturing plants. He was an economics major at Bowdoin College.

Andrew Iappini interned in 2000-01 and did data research and calculations on public sector health care wages and on livable wages. He was an economics major at Bates College.

Peter Auger interned in 1999-2000 and did research on health impacts for uninsured adults and children and also on differences in employment practices between locally-owned and out-of state-owned companies. He was a graduate social work student from the University of New England.

Anya Freiman interned in the summer of 1998 and wrote a paper comparing the impact of the school funding formula on three Midcoast Maine school districts. She was a Junior at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania majoring in economics with concentrations in public policy and women’s studies.