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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Fall 2007
Wisconsin DOA internship steers alum into public sector
Nonprofit management was the original career goal for Tanya (Wagner) Iverson when she started at La Follette in the fall of 2000. “At the time, I didn’t really have experience with state government,” she says. “I was on a nonprofit tilt.”
For information on internships
To learn more about internships for La Follette School students, contact Career Development Coordinator Mary Russell, (608) 263-2409, .
Alum opens doors, advances opportunities
Alum Rob Cramer is all about opportunity, whether smoothing the way for La Follette School interns or changing his own career. Read more …
Then she interned at the Wisconsin Department of Administration’s procurement office under Rob Cramer, 1992, and worked with a bureau director on a enterprise travel study that looked at how to consolidate travel-planning services for the state and university system. When Cramer was appointed to what was then the Division of Facility Development, Iverson continued her internship there.
Iverson went on to the state budget office, thanks in part to Cramer introducing her to people. “Rob made sure there were open doors, that at all times when top-level people were talking about my projects, that I was in the room for the discussions,” she says.
A 2002 graduate, Iverson is now a community services specialist with the Wisconsin Department of Commerce, where she works in the Division of Housing and Community Development administering and measuring the performance of emergency shelter and transitional housing grant programs. These grants go to nonprofits and some local governments throughout the state.
“I work with the federal government, state government and a bunch of nonprofits,” she says. “I get to work with entities as large as the City of Milwaukee and as small as a 12-person emergency shelter in Rock County for chronically homeless individuals run by a man who had been chronically homeless.”
“Through my internships I learned that I worked really well with state bureaucracy,” Iverson says. “Now I have the best of both worlds.”