The Importance of Bad Stats

After a year serving as a Center for Experiential Learning Social Justice Intern (SJI) in the Department of Government Relations of Catholic Charities, I outline the SJI program and the mission of the Department of Government Relations. I explore the progress I have made on the learning objectives that I set for myself within this program earlier in the year. Finally, I reflect, on personal projects that I completed within my role and on my time in an internship that often felt unnatural to what I knew advocacy to be. I particularly focused on the counter intuitive nature of Bad Stats and their importance in our department