How has adjusting to life after college been?
It has been weird moving to NYC after living in rural Maine for 4 years, but so far it has been really fun. I miss Unity, but I was up there for alumni weekend, so it was nice. I must admit it is nice to be getting paychecks though, and regularly. What is the purpose of the Fund for Public Interest Research? We are a nationwide non-profit that was started 20 years ago to run grassroots campaigns for other non-profits. We have run campaigns for over 40 different organizations, namely the state PIRG’s, Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, Save The Children, Sierra Club, and more. Basically, we do everything from raise money for the organizations to lobbying legislators to educating the public about their campaigns. In NYC, we are currently working with Greenpeace on their clean energy campaign- signing up members, raising money, and raising awareness of the fact that the Bush Administration’s energy plan is more or less a blank check to the energy industry and big oil. We run lots of diffe
