-: Whatever your background is,
whether it's gonna be in technology
or if it's gonna be in business or history
or English or education,
you have a life experience, you have a skill set
that probably other people may or may not have
and the message that you're trying to offer.
I feel like public policy is one of those things,
one of those places where
everybody gets to come to the table and play.
I think the most important skill you probably need to have
is your ability to communicate well,
whether that's oral or written communication.
You need to be able to be succinct in your message
and get it out in the smallest
easiest consumable way possible,
and you probably need to be very confident
in your ability to meet people and chat
and pull people together and introduce other people
to make sure that you're getting your objective through.
A lot of advocate areas love to take on volunteers
to go and meet people, make phone calls.
That's the easiest way to start
because people are always looking,
the more voices, the more messaging,
can you send an email to your network, social media,
but a lot of the nonprofits are always looking
for people to come and help them with their message.
That's another easy way to go.
Quite frankly you can call elected officials
and tell them you want to do an internship.
They love to take people to come and help them.
The volunteer aspect in policy is equal to a paid position
because you're still getting all the experience
and everybody in the policy world knows
everybody that has started on the volunteer track,
so that probably is an easy way to go
if that's something that you're able to do
from a resource standpoint.