Caroline Joseph, Research Intern (Top left):
Caroline graduated from Pitzer College in May of 2020 with a degree in Organizational Studies. She completed her honors thesis on intergovernmental lobbying of FEMA. Before joining CRP, Caroline worked as a research intern at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, co-authoring a piece on the revolving door. She also investigated gender and human rights issues as a volunteer for INIGED in Quito, Ecuador.

Lucia Geng, Journalism Intern (Top right):
Lucia is an undergraduate majoring in political science at the University of Chicago. Before coming to CRP, she worked to improve prison conditions as an intern with the ACLU’s National Prison Project. She has also fact-checked politicians and debunked misinformation as an intern with PolitiFact, and reported on local policy and courts for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Ollie Gratzinger, Journalism Intern (Bottom left):
Ollie is a first year graduate student at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, pursuing their MFA in Media Technology. Prior to arriving at CRP, Ollie has covered local news and entertainment for Pittsburgh City Paper and Pittsburgh Magazine, and served as the editor-in-chief of Duquesne’s student paper, The Duke. Ollie has been awarded two Keystone Awards for their weekly column, In Focus, as well as a first-place prize in the Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh’s 64th Annual Gertrude Gordon Scholarship Contest. Ollie was also selected to intern at the New York Times through the Dow Jones News Fund during the summer of 2020, but due to the covid-19 pandemic, they chose to defer until the summer of 2021.

Eliana Miller, Journalism Intern (Bottom right):
Eliana is a recent graduate of Bowdoin College, where she majored in Hispanic Studies and was the executive editor of the Bowdoin Orient. She has previously interned at The Poynter Institute and Maine Public Radio, where she covered immigration and local politics. Eliana is now back home in Washington, D.C.

OpenSecrets in the News

See our media citations from outlets around the nation this week:  

• The Mighty Money ($3 Billion) Fueling Campaign 2020 (The Washington Post)
  Twelve years after the first presidential election in which candidate fundraising eclipsed $1 billion, the 2020 race is on pace to shatter the $3 billion mark, thanks largely — but not solely — to the presence of billionaires on the ballots.
   

• Cory Gardner and John Hickenlooper have dual personalities when it comes to television ads and campaign emails (The Colorado Sun)
  In the Colorado Senate race, both major party candidates are far more partisan in emails, which they lean on for fundraising.
   

• Trump campaign raises hefty $210 million in August, but it’s well short of Biden’s record haul (CNBC)
  President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and its joint Republican committees raised $210 million in August, a monthly record for Trump but far short of the $364 million raised by Trump’s opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, during the same period.