Sheaa Amin is a Julia A. Fischelson Intern at the Center for American Women and Politics. She is a rising junior at Rutgers University – New Brunswick majoring in Political Science and Mathematics with minors in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Music. She is a proud member of the Honors College and Douglass College, previously serving as the mentor-in-residence to the Douglass Changemaking Community for continuing students within the Honors College. She is a second-year Leadership Scholar at the Institute for Women’s Leadership, focusing her Social Action Project on gender-based inequities in the service industry.
She is a recipient of the Rutgers Eagleton-Washington Award, and as a result is spending her 2022 summer in Washington D.C. interning at APIA Vote, a nonpartisan organization that promotes voting rights amongst Asian American & Pacific Islander communities. She was also chosen to attend the Harvard Public Policy and Leadership Conference during the fall of her sophomore year. At Rutgers, Sheaa is involved in the Lloyd C. Gardner Fellowship Program at the School of Arts and Sciences, serves on the executive board of Alpha Chi Omega, and is a Resident Assistant. Sheaa plans to pursue a career in legislative affairs before pursuing her Master’s in Public Policy.