1. [MCSPADDEN FUND PUBLIC POLICY INTERN PROFILE]
Sam Marullo ’13 graduated from Fayetteville-Manlius
High School in Manlius, NY, where he was a National
Merit Scholar and a National AP Scholar. At Dartmouth,
Marullo is double majoring in Government and
Mathematics. He works as a Presidential Scholar for
Professor Deborah Brooks and as a Student Consultant at
the IT Walk-In Center. He is also part of the Technical
Team and the Student Advisory Group for the Blitz-2-Blitz
Project. Marullo spent last spring studying abroad in
Barcelona and will spend next winter at Oxford University
through the Rockefeller Center’s Keble Exchange. Last
summer, Marullo worked at Policy Directions in
Washington, DC as a Rockefeller Center First Year Fellow.
He is involved in many different activities on campus, such as the Collis Governing Board,
Dartmouth Model United Nations, and PoliTALK. In Fall 2011, Marullo will be interning with the
President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
Samuel was funded by The Rockefeller Center for a Fall 2011 Internship, with generous support
from the The McSpadden Public Affairs Internship Fund.
Executive Summary from Samuel’s final report:
The President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness is an independent advisory board to the
President of the U.S. Chaired by General Electric C.E.O. Jeff Immelt, the Jobs Council is
composed of leaders in business and academia, and its mission is to suggest objective, non-
partisan solutions for improving the economy, creating jobs in America, and improving the
competitiveness of the American workforce.
“I was writing every day in my
internship. Rockefeller’s Civic During my internship at the Jobs Council, I researched and
Skills Training on writing wrote on a variety of topics including entrepreneurship,
prepared me well-enough to workforce development, and regulatory policy among others.
Additionally, I helped plan listening-and-action sessions
consistently get compliments
throughout the country for Jobs Council members and
on the quality of my writing.”
administration officials, coordinated a meeting of the full

2. Council with President Obama, helped monitor various news sources for relevant articles, and
wrote and helped proofread numerous briefing and informational memos. I was writing every
day in my internship. Writing a policy brief or memo is very different from writing for an
academic setting. Rockefeller’s Civic Skills Training on writing prepared me well-enough to
consistently get compliments on the quality of my writing.
The internship has helped further shape my thoughts towards my future. I enjoyed the
experience of working in public service, and I now expect that I will spend at least part of my
career in government. Speaking with other employees at Treasury has also given me a broader
understanding of potential options for graduate school. While I still expect to attend graduate
school eventually, I do not believe that I will attend immediately after my graduation from
college. In particular, I am now less interested in attending law school and more interested in
earning a master’s degree in economics.
Samuel Marullo at his President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness at the
U.S. Department of the Treasury internship in Washington, D.C.