Personal Contribution – Week 6

Week 6 has been the most rigorous week thus far due to the proximity of our final projects. Next week, we will be presenting our research for one of our policy groups at the Humphrey Symposium in which various members from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs will be invited. Additionally, we will have to present a presentation for our second policy group to various policy makers across the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul such as the former Mayor of St. Paul, the Citizen’s League, the Minneapolis Police Department and other organizations. For this presentation, I am conducting research on the economic and historical background of tip credits in the minimum wage ordnance within the City of St. Paul.

Although the group members have divided responsibility in terms of the research, we have to pick one member to present our findings to the entire room. For this presentation, I will be presenting on behalf of my group and will be representing our group.  I volunteered myself to present our group’s research in order to challenge myself as well as present the University of Richmond in a positive light. Up to this point, I believe I have not only been an integral part of the research groups in which I am a part of, but also to the cohort as a whole which has been fairly fractured due to a number of reasons. For example, I recently had the privilege of presenting one of our coordinators with a card and brief speech on behalf of the group to express our gratitude for her commitment to us and the program.