2017/2018 Fellow | Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin | Berlin
I applied for BUKA after a number of years working in state and local government that was beginning to leave me jaded. I knew there had to be a better way of governing that focused more on how to solve people’s daily problems. The BUKA allowed me to embed myself in Berlin’s state government and work on participatory budgeting reform for a whole year. The time I spent as a BUKA fellow reenergized my passion for making government work for the people, and I returned to my hometown to start a career working in state government, writing policy, and helping lawmakers to pass bills to defend the environment, save the climate, and improve my fellow Americans’ lives.
