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Executive Director
Dr. Linda Bayer
     Dr. Linda Bayer founded the Washington Internship Program and has directed it for nearly twenty years. The author of eighteen books, this former White House speechwriter and strategic analyst is an award-winning syndicated columnist and college professor who teaches and lectures widely. A clinical therapist who is also a novelist, she served on the faculties of Wesleyan University, Boston University, American University, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the Hebrew University in Israel where she occupied an endowed chair.
     Dr. Bayer studied for two doctorates and has a Ph.D. in humanities (literature and art history), Masters degrees in education and English, plus graduate work toward an Ed.D. in counseling and consulting psychology from Harvard University. Dr. Bayer appeared on MSNBC, the Korean Broadcasting Company, National Public Radio, Arirang in 140 countries, and a wide range of media. In her name and others', she published hundreds of articles and opinion editorials in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Vital Speeches of the Day, and Roll Call, among countless newspapers and magazines. Bayer's books include: The Gothic Imagination (now in its second printing); a novel titled The Blessing and the Curse; biographies of Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, Supreme Court Jusitice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and musician Quincy Jones; five volumes of the Encyclopedia of Psychological Disorders; and six books (geared for adolescents) focusing on crime and illegal drugs. The White House printed two bound collections of the articles and op-eds Dr. Bayer wrote that were published in newspapers and journals.
Senior Vice President
Don Mathison
     Don Mathison was formerly the General Manager of StarPower Communications. Mr. Mathison has thirty-three years of experience in business and administration within the media / telecommunications field. Among other conglomerates where Mathison held executive posts are: Media General Cable, Group W, Times Mirror, Warner Communication, and Colony Communications. As a senior vice president of marketing and promotion at Media General Cable, Mathison was an innovative educator and marketer. A faculty member at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia as well as the Washington Internship Program, Mathison serves on the Cable and Telecommunications Association's Marketing Board of Directors and Editorial Board.
     Mathison earned a Masters of Business Administration in marketing management from Bernard Baruch School of Business in New York and graduated from Buffalo University with a major in psychology. He managed budgets for multimillion-dollar corporations in Washington and California where his work taught him about the intersection of government, politics, Hollywood, and the arts along with economics and trade.
Additional Faculty

     Senior faculty members at the Washington Internship Program -- who teach W.I.P. courses at Georgetown University in the summer -- are drawn from the top educators, business leaders, government specialists, media experts, and published authors in the United States. The program believes that education is the true path to success and happiness. In this spirit, the Washington Internship Program challenges students intellectually, emotionally, and ethically.

Student Body

    The One-World Washington Internship Program accepts interns of all ages and backgrounds from diverse religions and countries. Most interns are in their twenties (or late teens), yet some attended college or graduate school later in life or are changing fields at mid-career. The Washington Internship program admits roughly the same number of men and women, and it does not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, race, faith, ethnicity, or nationality. However, all applicants accepted into the program must have strong English skills.
     Although we offer advanced English language classes twice a week, no one can succeed at professional internships in Washington without a firm grounding in conversational English. The positions we make available to our superb candidates are the result of twenty years of placements. Although interns are put at new organizations every year, our reputation with supervisors at the most prestigious agencies -- as well as fine, small companies -- was built by former interns who did a wonderful job in the past. Since professional editors assist interns with written assignments, even foreign students submit publishable-quality material at work.
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