Published:
Monday, November 18, 2013
The ACLU of Washington has many wonderful interns who assist with our work. We would like you to meet some of them.
Catherine Fisher wants to learn about and make a difference in social justice and politics. A high school student, she hopes to help educate others, perhaps as an investigative journalist, highlighting issues that people don’t know about. For example, she says that in Washington “a third of our state doesn’t know we have the death penalty,” if we educated them, if people knew, then they might be willing to help make changes.
This is why she decided to spend the year interning in Communications here at the ACLU, She says that all of the issues that the ACLU works on are important and worth fighting for, and that people should learn about and get involved on issues that they think are important. For Catherine, the issue of limits to patient choices accompanying hospital mergers is particularly significant because “people deserve the care they want, not what someone else thinks they should get.” She has worked on the successful forum on “Hospital Mergers & Religious Restrictions on Health Care” that the ACLU-WA and allies put on at Town Hall Seattle, and hopes that it has educated and encouraged others to action.
She is one of 60 students at Interlake High School who completed their International Baccalaureate Diplomas last year as juniors and now are spending their senior year taking college classes and interning at local organizations. In addition to working here, Catherine is volunteering at the community radio station KBCS and is taking her last required English and social science courses. She has applied for early admissions to study Comparative Literature and Journalism at Columbia, and is eager to find out if she will get to move to New York next year for school.
Catherine is also an avid local music fan and often attends festivals. Noah Gunderson and Hey Marseilles are her favorites. But she also loves the classics Dylan and Springsteen, and is always open to new or old suggestions.
