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Growing up in various countries overseas, Peter Fitzgerald \u201923 considered northern Michigan to be home base. Now a series of political internships have helped the Kalamazoo College senior connect more with his adopted home and envision a possible future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a dad who was a Foreign Services officer, Fitzgerald was born in Australia, and his parents now live in the Washington, D.C., area. In between, they lived in Denmark, Ukraine, Morocco and Belgium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every summer, however, he would spend with his grandparents in northern Michigan. His mom and cousins would stay there, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe moved around so much,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cThat was a place to call home. In relation to other Foreign Service kids, it was unusual to have that kind of stability. I was always grateful to have that place that didn\u2019t change.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Fitzgerald \u201923 has completed three political internships in his time at K, including a summer 2022 internship with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s office. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

That sense of Michigan as home, combined with both a cousin and a Foreign Services acquaintance attending K and a K representative visiting Fitzgerald\u2019s Belgium high school, made K the only school Fitzgerald even considered attending. After taking a gap year in Belgium, he started at K in fall 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fitzgerald is a double major in history<\/a> and political science<\/a>. He is also working on a minor in music<\/a> and a concentration in American studies<\/a>. The K-Plan\u2019s<\/a><\/em> open curriculum has made it possible for him to explore a variety of interests and discover new ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI knew that I loved political science,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cI didn\u2019t really plan on doing another major besides that, and then I took a history course with Dr. Boyer Lewis and I just loved it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He plays classical guitar and has sung in the choir, filled a leadership role in the College Democrats, and has played tennis<\/a> all four years at K. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel that having those interests and having a lot of leeway in what courses you take connects you to a lot more of the school than you otherwise would have the opportunity to experience,\u201d Fitzgerald said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of winter term his first year, Fitzgerald was on Handshake looking for opportunities outside campus when he came across internships in Democrat Jon Hoadley\u2019s 2020 U.S. House campaign for Michigan\u2019s 6th congressional district, which includes Kalamazoo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was curious if there was something I could do, along with my academics, to get to know the Kalamazoo area better,\u201d Fitzgerald said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He worked on Hoadley\u2019s campaign, primarily making phone calls and canvassing, for about two months before the COVID-19 shutdown sent him to his parents in D.C. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was rewarding getting a start in the political world,\u201d Fitzgerald said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was rewarding enough that when summer 2021 rolled around, Fitzgerald sought out another political internship, this time with Darrin Camilleri \u201914, a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, representing District 23, south of Detroit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come summer 2022, Fitzgerald applied via Handshake for an internship with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s office. He took advantage of K connections, reaching out to Christopher Yates \u201983, who also played tennis at K and was recently appointed a Court of Appeals judge by Whitmer, to ask if Yates had any connections within the campaign. Within a couple days, Fitzgerald was contacted for an interview, and soon after that, he was in Detroit working for the governor\u2019s office for three months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This internship involved a lot of planning, coordinating and logistics for small business stops, community events and constituency groups, such as Native Americans for Whitmer.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would reach out to the small business owner, or whoever, make a plan, promote it and get people to attend,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cWe would drive to these events, two and a half, three hours, for a 15-minute visit with the governor. It wasn\u2019t glamorous a lot of the time, but it felt really important, meaningful and worthwhile. It felt like we were making a difference.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The internships have affirmed Fitzgerald\u2019s interest in political work, perhaps with the State Department, and helped him envision some of the possibilities that lie along that path. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI learned a lot,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cI met a lot of people who could probably make more money doing other jobs, but they\u2019re working for something that they believe in fundamentally. I felt like I had a relationship with Michigan, from spending my summers here growing up, but this job opened my eyes to people\u2019s lives that I wouldn\u2019t normally have interacted with. I still think I\u2019m on a path where I\u2019d like to work for the federal government, but also, I can see that people\u2019s issues are really localized. People care about what\u2019s in front of them.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working for the governor\u2019s office was both humbling and uplifting for Fitzgerald. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople have come up to me and asked me about issues in Michigan thinking that I had power over policy issues,\u201d he said. \u201cEven though I couldn\u2019t do anything, just to be able to listen to people and share with someone who had that power felt really meaningful.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The internships also helped Fitzgerald draw connections between coursework and real life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt makes an experience a lot more meaningful when you are able to make connections,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cWhether it was from my American history course or my political science course, there were pertinent things I could draw from in relation to the issues we were talking about this summer. I am also bringing things I\u2019ve done on this campaign back to K.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connections to people have also been key to Fitzgerald\u2019s K experience. Networking and professional contact with alumni such as Camilleri and Yates, personal interest from President Jorge G. Gonzalez, academic inspiration from Professor of History and Director of the American Studies and the Women, Gender and Sexuality programs Charlene Boyer Lewis \u201987, and guidance from men\u2019s tennis Head Coach Mark Riley all combine to make K feel like a new home base for Fitzgerald. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think initially, I had some dissonance between knowing that I’m from here but never having lived really in the U.S.,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cI felt out of my element for a time, but the people, my mentors and the friends that I have now, made it possible for me to feel like even though I did come with a different background, even though I felt maybe a little discombobulated at first, that there were people that I could rely on and who would support me.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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