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Photo/Reba Saldanha Rappaport Fellows Reception Boston College Law School May 30, 2019

Amy Couture

Photo/Reba Saldanha Rappaport Fellows Reception Boston College Law School May 30, 2019

Amy Couture

Organization

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Program

Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Year

2019

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving within the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston Area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Graduate School
Harvard Kennedy School/Harvard Law School

Undergraduate School
Dartmouth College

Mentor
Melissa Threadgill, Director of Juvenile Justice Initiatives, Massachusetts Office of the Child Advocate and Former Rappaport Policy Fellow

Agency
Office of Senator Jamie Eldridge

Supervisor
Michael Carr, Chief of Staff

Description of Fellowship
Amy spent the summer in State Senator Jamie Eldridge’s office and assisted Senator Eldridge and his team on matters pending before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary for the House and Senate. Over the course of the summer, Amy researched and wrote policy memos on solitary confinement reform and online sexual harassment, drafted talking points and letters of testimony, and assisted the staff in meetings and committee hearings. Her work contributed significantly to draft bill SD.2532, which enhances procedural protections for individuals in solitary confinement in Massachusetts prisons.