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KASEY OLIVER MITSU KLINES

2006 INTERN FOR 2011 INTERN FOR
U.S. SENATOR TIM JOHNSON (D-SD) U.S. SENATOR MARY LANDRIEU (D-LA)
I am an attorney and the managing partner of the For more than three years I have worked at The Alliance for
law firm Heidepriem, Purtell, Siegel & Olivier, LLP, Children’s Rights NextStep Program as an Administrative
in South Dakota. I practice in all areas of litigation. I Legal Assistant. The NextStep Program assists 16–24
decided to go to law school after the FYI Program. year olds with legal and transition issues. It was the FYI
Spending time with other foster youth helped me Program that helped me understand what I wanted to do
understand that I needed to give back through my in life, which is work to improve the foster care system. The
legal career and help other children going through program also helped me develop skills such as researching,
the same things I experienced in foster care. writing reports, and conducting presentations, all of which
are skills I regularly use in my career.

EMPOWERING DREAMS

ANGELIQUE SALIZAN JASON MORIN
2015 INTERN FOR THE U.S. SENATE 2016 INTERN FOR THE U.S. SENATE
MINORITY FINANCE COMMITTEE MAJORITY FINANCE COMMITTEE
Shortly after my FYI Program internship ended, I began I am starting my second year of law school at the Florida
working in Senator Debbie Stabenow’s office as a staff International University College of Law. The experiences,
assistant. A year and a half after that, I became a legislative connections, and publication of my policy report during
correspondent for Senator Sherrod Brown. Honestly, if I did the FYI Program added a degree of legitimacy to my
not take part in the FYI Program, I am not sure I would have advocacy for child welfare reform that is unavailable by
ended up where I am right now. I applied to this internship any other internship opportunities. Since the program’s
immediately after I graduated from undergrad, and I am end, I have been contacted by and collaborated on
beyond grateful that I took that chance. The program has projects with other organizations interested in the
opened doors for me that I didn’t know existed. research that was published in my policy report.