{"id":59772,"date":"2020-05-14T08:55:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=59772"},"modified":"2020-05-14T08:55:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:55:22","slug":"udall-foundation-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/udall-foundation-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU student awarded Udall Foundation 2020 Native American congressional internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Udall Foundation and Native Nations Institute selected Northern Arizona University alumnus <strong>Garrett W. Briggs\u00a0<\/strong>as a Native American congressional intern.<\/p>\n<p>Only 12 interns are selected for this program each year. Interns are selected based on their academic achievement and a demonstrated commitment to careers in tribal public policy. As a Udall intern, Briggs will complete an intensive nine-week internship in Washington, D.C..<\/p>\n<p>Briggs will begin the program in 2021, as this year\u2019s program has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Udall Foundation will support this year\u2019s interns with online professional development and networking opportunities in the interim.<\/p>\n<p>A descendent of the Mouache and Capote bands of Ute and a member of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe (SUIT), Briggs is the first member of his tribe to be selected as a Udall intern. He graduated from NAU with a master\u2019s degree in archeological research in May 2017 and has been working as a tribal liaison for the SUIT, focusing on cultural preservation. Briggs plans to obtain his law degree and work for SUIT specializing in the protection of the Ute heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The Native American Congressional Internship Program provides Native American and Alaska Native students with the opportunity to gain practical experience with the federal legislative process to understand firsthand the government-to-government relationship between tribes and the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.udall.gov\/OurPrograms\/Internship\/Internship.aspx\">Congressional Internship Program<\/a>\u00a0and meet the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.udall.gov\/OurPrograms\/Internship\/MeetInterns.aspx\">2020 Udall Interns<\/a> online.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/udall-foundation-2020\/\">The Udall Foundation and Native Nations Institute selected Northern Arizona University alumnus Garrett W. Briggs\u00a0as a Native American congressional intern. Only 12 interns are selected for this program each year. Interns are selected based on their academic achievement and a demonstrated commitment to careers in tribal public policy. As a Udall intern, Briggs will complete&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":59773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}