M-Term: Interning for Council Member Abbie Kamin- Monday- Matching Skirts

 Monday- Matching Skirts

   “You missed maxi skirt, tight shirt day!”- Anna to Yucari in the staff meeting. Apparently Mondays are for maxi skirts and tight shirts, since Anna, Aliyah, and I were all matching. Anna and I were kind of scarily matching, with the same exact skirt in different colors from Target, and a sweater with a small turtle neck. This was the least important event of the day, but maybe the most entertaining. The day started with finishing my research on Planned Parenthood, finding more statistics from Harris County and specific council districts for maternal mortality rates. After finishing my Planned Parenthood research, I worked on and finished the research I was doing on BARC, today was just reading through it one more time and fixing any spelling/grammatical mistakes. I then had a meeting with Kate and Anna where we went over the Agenda. Anna is taking over from Kate to work on the Agenda, so this week is for her to figure out how to do it. In that meeting I learned about consent agendas, and squared items. After that meeting, I worked on work for Public Session. My job was looking at the address of each speaker, finding their district, and putting that information in the document. I was also in charge of finding who lived in District C and who were talking about items in District C, for example, the live oaks on Montrose. To do this work, I used a website called Houston Map Finder. After I was done with that, Kate assigned me work on doing research on air quality in Houston. I did research into factors of poor air quality, statistics in Houston, and the effects of poor air quality. I also learned about a new website called openmap.clarity.io which gives me a map with statistics of air quality in each area. TSU has surprisingly bad air quality compared the the rest of Houston. I was then pulled into a meeting with CM Kamin, Yucari, and Kate talking about a project they are working on. I am not sure how much about that I am allowed to talk about, so I am not going to say anything more, other than I was assigned to do some research on mental health for first responders, and later this week I will accompany Yucari on a sight visit hopefully. That research is what I did following that meeting. I then went to Lunch, and when I came back I did some classic intern work. I scanned a bunch of receipts into the system. I followed that work with doing more research on air quality, and then we went to the Agenda briefing for chief of staffs. I found it interesting how the topics totally varied from replacing plates in the break room to creating grants. After that we went to the Staff meeting where we all brief each other on what we are working on, and then I left for the day! 






    

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  1. Andrea NovakMarch 26, 2024 at 9:42 AM

    I wanted to see a picture of the matching outfits! Very interesting work you are doing Isa, Congrats!

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