The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is pleased to announce the Summer Internship Program Cohort of 2025.
Over 20 years ago, AAPD launched the Summer Internship Program to develop the next generation of leaders with disabilities. AAPD has placed college students, graduate students, law students, and recent graduates with all types of disabilities in paid summer internships with Congressional offices, federal agencies, nonprofit and for-profit organizations within the Washington, DC area. The AAPD Summer Internship Program advances participants’ career opportunities, deepens their leadership skills, and meaningfully connects them to the broader disability community.
The 2025 Summer Internship Class is:
- Adriana DeMercurio | Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- Alyssa Wilson | dozanü innovations
- Brianna Arce | Washington Performing Arts
- Brynn Patterson | Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
- Charlotte Chung | New America
- Christol Wright | National Low Income Housing Coalition
- Dylan Bunyak | Disability Culture Lab
- Ela’jah Dixon | Center for Racial and Disability Justice
- Esmeralda Cazarez | Office of Representative Lateefah Simon
- Huá Huī Samuel Vogel | Center for American Progress, Disability Justice Initiative
- Janna Wang | UnlockedMaps
- Kadesha Treco | New Disabled South
- Lazy Levin | Science History Institute
- Lauryn Huffman | Office of Representative Jasmine Crockett
- Malcolm Miller | Project LETS
- Marcy Waring | Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
- Mercy Botchway | Office of Representative Ayanna Pressley
- Rohit Sen | Bocoup
- Timothy John Jackson II | Caring Across Generations
- Tooba Ishaq | Elevance Health
You can read the Summer 2025 Interns’ full bios and learn more about them here.
The 2025 AAPD Summer Internship Program would not be possible without the generous support of our partners. Thank you to Arconic Foundation, Microsoft, and United Airlines for supporting our Summer Internship Program.
Image Description: A group of AAPD interns smiles at the camera, gathered outside on a rooftop balcony. The group is a diversity of races and genders, and has a diversity of disabilities. Some members of the group are sitting in wheelchairs, others are standing, others are using canes. Some are wearing masks.