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The list below highlights what some members of recent graduating classes have accomplished after receiving their B.A. in political science from MUW.

2008

• a veteran volunteer on congressional and presidential campaigns who now works in a district office of a Mississippi congressman.

2006

• a graduate student working toward her PhD in political science at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN). Her research specialty is comparative political behavior.
• the Committee Coordinator for the Minneapolis (MN) City Council.
• a paralegal for a New Orleans law firm specializing in maritime law.

2005

• an activist who works as a Clinical Research Associate for Radiation Oncology at the Siteman Cancer Center, part of the Washington University (St. Louis) hospital. She volunteers with a sexual assault response team as well.
• a program liaison with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's School and Youth Program (based in Portsmouth, VA).

2004

• a student at the University of Mississippi law school.
• a writer who received a Master's in English from the University of Alabama. While there she completed an internship with an organization that redesigned and expanded the website for the Federal Aviation Administration.

2003

• a news producer for WCBI-TV in Columbus who then moved to a similar position with the FOX affiliate in Birmingham, AL.

2002

• a member of the U.S. Air National Guard who worked at Space Command (Camp Peterson, CO) and is now an intelligence analyst at NORAD (Boulder, CO).

2001

• a legislative and communications staffer for Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove. She is currently working toward a Master's degree in organizational and corporate communication at Emerson College (Boston).
• a grant writer for the Eastern Plains Council of Governments (New Mexico) before returning to work for Columbus' city attorney.
• an attorney who received her J.D. from Seton Hall University (New Jersey). While working toward her law degree, she interned for the International Criminal Court and traveled to Arusha, Tanzania to intern for the United Nations war crimes tribunal on the Rwanda genocide.

2000

• an activist who worked at a homeless shelter in Washington, DC and completed an AmeriCorps internship. He then earned a Master's degree in substance abuse counseling from East Carolina University. He is currently a staffer for a court-related drug offender program in North Carolina.

1999

• a recipient of a Master's degree in international relations (specializing in East European environmental policy) from Syracuse University (New York). While at Syracuse, she interned for the World Resources Institute, and afterward she worked for the World Wildlife Fund.

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