I am Devinn Phillips and I am a Senior undergraduate student at Arizona State University. I am originally from the Seattle, Washington area and come to ASU after completing my Associates Degree from a local community college back home. This semester I am going to be interning with the Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security at Arizona State University, which falls directly in line with my major - Public Service and Public Policy (Emergency Management and Homeland Security).

Throughout my internship, there are three main goals that I wish to achieve. The first is to begin to understand the life of a professional. Until now, I have always been a student learning in the classroom, participating in clubs and organizations, and working on homework. While I have had jobs outside of school, they have always been jobs you would expect a student to have and I have very little experience in the professional, business world. The second goal that I have is to network with professionals in my field. This internship is going to give me the opportunity to network both within the academic and business worlds and it is incredibly important to reach out and show my enthusiasm for my field of work starting as soon as possible. As the saying goes, "it is not what you know, it is who you know" and the internship is a great opportunity to get to know many professionals within the emergency management and homeland security fields. A third goal I have for my internship is to gain a complete and better understanding of the emergency management and homeland security fields. I've had the opportunity to learn in the classroom, but sometimes it can be hard to see how the classroom learning will be applicable to the real world. My third goal focuses on taking the classroom learning and seeing how it can directly correlate to the professional world.