PolitiCorps: Shaping Leaders for the Politics of Tomorrow

This Idealist.org Public Service Careers interview is with Caitlyn
Baggott and Emily Kintzer of the Bus Project and its political boot
camp, PolitiCorps. The Bus Project has worked since 2001 to
mobilize thousands of volunteers and activists around OR, to
register new voters, engage new leaders, and inspire grassroots
civic action. Its program PolitiCorps is a 10-week intensive
bootcamp that brings 24 young people from around the United States
for skills training, public policy intensives, and leadership
practice. Caitlynn Baggot is a co-founder of the Bus Project and
today runs Politicorps. She also designed the Bus. Emily Kintzer
was a 2006 PolitiCorps fellow and is now on staff with the Bus
Project as PolitiCorps's Recruitment Director. Applications for
PolitiCorps are due March 3 and June 6.

Idealist.org's Amy Potthast talks with Caitlyn and Emily about the
Bus Project, PolitiCorps, and careers in political
campaigning.

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