The Texas Legislative Internship Program - Senate

Katasia Jordan is a second-year graduate student
and master’s candidate in the Department of Community
and Regional Planning within the School of Architecture
at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her
Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communication at
Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN. She recently
served as a research assistant in the Department of
Diversity and Community Engagement at the University
of Texas and also participated in a study abroad program
in Cape Town, South Africa assessing governance challenges.
Ms. Jordan is currently interning in the office of
State Representative Helen Giddings. She plans to pursue
a career in public policy as a research/policy analyst where she can exercise her
skills in spatial analysis as well as her interest in social justice.
Rachel Kelly is a second-year law student at Thurgood
Marshall School of Law. She is originally from
Birmingham, AL and received her Bachelor of Arts degree
in Journalism with a minor in Political Science from the
University of Alabama. She has previously interned with
the United States Coast Guard legal department in New
Orleans, LA and Pittman, Dutton, Hellums P.C. in
Birmingham, AL. She is currently a judicial intern with
Justice Nathan L. Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court.
When she is not jump-starting her legal career, Rachel
enjoys reading, writing, cooking, and attending University
of Alabama football games.
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