Heinz Student Wins a Fellowship on the Hill
The Women's Research and Education Institute (WREI) has awarded Heinz School graduate Jocelyn Yee with one of its prestigious fellowships on Capitol Hill. Since 1980, WREI Fellowships have placed more than 250 outstanding women scholars on House, Senate and Congressional committee staffs to master federal policymaking while enhancing understanding of the effects of legislative actions on women and their families.
Yee, a native of Los Angeles, California, has just completed her Master's of Science in Public Policy and Management. In addition to an abiding interest in legislative actions of importance to women, at the Heinz School Yee explored the differing status of men and women in the U.S. and how it affects policy.
While at Carnegie Mellon she served on the Graduate Women Advisory Board and as the graduate student representative on the University's Board of Trustees Finance Committee. In her year-long capstone project, supervised under Professor Wilpen Gorr, she and her teammates developed a website for the Allegheny County Agency on Aging that links the elderly and their caregivers to information about home-based health care, community resources, and service referrals. Jocelyn received her A.A. from Santa Monica College before obtaining her B.A. at the University of California at Berkeley in political science and ethnic studies. She is a past recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Program.
For more information on Congressional Fellowships for Women and Public Policy, see www.wrei.org.