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Emerson Fellow

David Pope

12th Class, 2005-2006

David graduated with honors from Davidson College, where he majored in English.  He was elected junior class president, tutored special needs students, served as a camp counselor for disabled teenagers, and worked with Senator Fritz Hollings to support the shrimp industry in South Carolina.  In the last two years, David studied refugee issues in Scotland, worked with indigenous populations in New Zealand, and spent a summer crewing a salmon boat in Alaska.

Field placement: Massachusetts Law Reform Institute

Boston, Massachusetts

Policy placement: National Coalition for the Homeless

Washington, D.C.