By being in Purdue Graduate Student Government, I learned how policy is written, voted upon and brought about in a democratic system. I feel that being the ENEGSA senator allowed me to learn more about policy as well.

I served a two-year term to represent the voices of Engineering Education students in the Purdue Graduate Student Government meetings. I wrote two pieces of legislation concerning Graduate Student Pay and Diversity initiatives. In my position I had a vote and assisted in ENEGSA events as needed. 

In the essay, I explored engineer migration to and from the U.S. territories. To do this, however, I had to learn about the history and some policies that made the islands' context unique. Few policies are specifically about educational policy in engineering education but I found that this is mainly due to erasure from the mainland to the territories. 

I navigated how policy at Purdue works in regard to organizing in-person events. I learned about SAO, Boilerlink, Food Safety with COVID, Budgets, and other relevant things to documentation and policy. 

University of Puerto Rico's string orchestra association allowed me to understand policy differentiating institutional organizations and student associations. This allowed me to understand that both can coexist affecting where incomes can come from and be spent within the same group. We created a document to make a policy within this organization.

Created a plan according to IISE Guidelines for University Chapters. With this opportunity I tapped into different levels of policy at UPRM including travel guidelines, budgets, inscribing associations and other bureaucratic activities. Some proof documents created:

Chapter Progress Report

Activity Log 2020-2021

Operations Plan 2020-2021

I have navigated different parts of organizations' policy, as a participant, as an active member, and as a leader. There should be things on my CV that can talk about how they relate to policy.