Subject: My daughter's cover letter and resume
From: Barry Gold <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 13:07:20 -0500

John -

Nice bumping into you on the Metro.  I hope you have a great Thanksgiving,
I'm sure you deserve a break.

I'm attaching my daughter's cover letter and resume, thanks for getting it
into the right hands.  Kiki McClean who is now working with us, has also
passed it on.

While Jessie is somewhat privileged, she also knows how to work.  She has
spent time tutoring low income kids at a trailer park in Palo Alto and
worked at Jamba Juice to make ends meet.

While I'm biased as her dad, she's also got a great mind.  Abby Blum, the
woman who supervised her on the Warren campaign wrote about Jessie, *"Jessie’s
organization and work ethic were among the first characteristics that
struck me at the beginning of the internship program. She proactively took
a leadership role at our volunteer phone calling station. Although this may
not seem like a large responsibility, she was able to manage 50 of her
peers and many other volunteers. I often noticed she had a naturally
motivating effect on volunteers, interns and staffers she interacted with.
Jessie continued to impress me throughout the internship with her positive
attitude and creativity in the face of some of the most difficult tasks.
Whether it was hours of call time or data entry, I knew I could count on
Jessie to be a reliable and bright spot in my day.*

*In the day to day, Jessie showed a high degree of professionalism and a
sincere ability to relate to and work with people of all different ages and
backgrounds. By the end of the summer, Jessie had many of the same
responsibilities as our Field Organizers. As I increased her
responsibility, she responded with tenacity, consistently meeting or
exceeding my expectations. She launched canvasses, ran training seminars
and planned volunteer recruitment events that helped to build the
foundation of this campaign’s field program."*

While she is looking for a policy position, she does have some campaign
experience.

And in another recommendation letter, her major advisor, the head of the
Government department at Connecticut College wrote,* "The quality of her
work is as notable as its breadth; Jessie has earned Dean’s Honors in three
semesters and Dean’s Highest Honors in a fourth semester, while routinely
over-pointing her course load. Jessie never chose the easy question or
rested with the easy answer. She is intrigued by and curious about the
complexities of ideas and lives. In “United States Government and
Politics,” she prepared a paper and a poster presentation on two distinct
facets of education reform, the paper on charter schools and the poster on
financing reforms. Both were well-researched, ambitious, evaluative
arguments that drew the reader into detailed assessments of educational
policy priori*ties."

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Cheers,

Barry Gold
Director, Environment Program
Walton Family Foundation
P.S. - I've been enjoying working with Christy, Chris and the folks at CEQ,
and am in conversation with Laura Cantral and MIke Conathan about the Blue
Parks idea.

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -
Albert Einstein