This semester, 23 students in the Domestic Violence Civic Engagement Project are visiting Capitol Hill to support renewal of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which has been instrumental in dramatically reducing domestic violence since it was passed by Congress in 1994.

During TWC's Inauguration Academic Seminar, faculty leaders play a large part in guiding and mentoring groups of students from all over the country during their experience in Washington, D.C. Ashley Pinney, faculty leader of Elon University's international fellows, reflects on her experience:

As part of the seminar course component of the TWC-Elon Legal Externship Program, fall students are participating in a legal practicum.

Legal externs receive the opportunity to merge legal skills cultivated this semester in their externship with the knowledge accumulated from law school courses by assisting in a pro-bono case on behalf of a DC area non-profit. At the completion of the project, the externs will be writing a legal journal article and submitting it for publication in a legal journal.

Over the course of a month, over 70 different media outlets covered, wrote stories and turned the attention of their online readers to TWC's Campaign 2012 Academic Seminar.

The Washington Center hosted a Summer Career Panel for Law and Graduate Students for the Summer Transporation Internship Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG) and the TWC-Elon University School of Law Externship Program. The students gained additional insight on topics like networking, career paths in the federal government and the unique application process to obtain a job in the federal government.

Panelists included several TWC alumni:

The Pendulum, Elon University's school newspaper, featured the new legal externship program in their March issue. The article focuses on TWC's new partnership with Elon's School of Law, which will now provide their students with more legal externship opportunities in the nation's capital.

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