FORMER?U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (center) with Levin Center at Wayne Law interns (left to right) Marisa Hamel, Shelbie Rose, Marilyn Yousif and Marie Bonnici.
– Photo courtesy of Wayne Law
The Levin Center at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit chose four law students to serve as legal interns in congressional committee offices in Washington, D.C. this summer.
Internships were awarded to:
• Marie Bonnici of Riverview, Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs (Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-OH)
• Marisa Hamel of Cortland, New York, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Congressman Trey Gowdy, R-SC)
• Shelbie Rose of Romulus, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO)
• Marilyn Yousif of Macomb, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (Sen. Tom Carper D-DE)
Each position involved work with congressional staff from both parties and a bipartisan approach to oversight.
Students worked under the supervision of an experienced attorney who is engaged in conducting oversight on behalf of a congressional committee.
This is the third year for the 10-week internships that include a financial stipend to offset travel and living expenses for the interns. Interns are supported by Levin Center staff during their time in Washington.
Bonnici, a rising third-year student, has previously been a senior trust advisor at Plante Moran Trust.
Prior to that, she worked at Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn as a paralegal. She earned her bachelor’s from Madonna University.
Hamel is a rising third-year student and is on the board of the Free Legal Aid Clinic and Mock Trial team, and has completed internships with the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
She earned her bachelor’s from Michigan State University.
Rose is a rising-second year student and will be participating in Wayne Law Review and Moot Court this fall.
She previously has been an intern with RAINN, the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization, and worked with the Michigan Democratic Party as a political fundraiser.
Rose earned her bachelor’s from the University of Michigan.
Yousif, a rising third-year student, was a member of The Journal of Law in Society at Wayne Law and is vice president of the Moot Court Board for the 2018-19 academic year.
She previously interned with U.S. District Court Judge Gershwin A. Drain and with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan.
This fall she will be a law clerk at Zausmer, August, and Caldwell PC. Yousif earned her bachelor’s from Michigan State University.
Launched in March 2015, the Levin Center educates future attorneys, business leaders, legislators and public servants on their role overseeing public and private institutions and using oversight as an instrument of change.
The center is named in honor of former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan’s longest-serving U.S. senator, who retired at the beginning of 2015 after 36 years in the Senate.
Levin serves as chair of the Levin Center and on the law school’s faculty as distinguished legislator in residence.
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