Community Partner: Mayor’s Communication and Public Affairs Team
Peer Mentor: Charlie Green
Site Supervisors: Anthony McCarthy
What is the Mayor’s Communication and Public Affairs Team?
The Communications team at the Baltimore City Mayor’s office works to effectively market initiatives the
mayor is undertaking, promoting events held for the community.
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Wrote and assisted with Media Advisories
Went to press events with the Mayor and communicated to the press
Assisted in planning the Mayor's Back to School Rally, an event that will be
attended by thousands of city school children
Aided the Mayor's photographer with photoshoots, press events, and helped to
update the online photo gallery of the Mayor
As a Peer Mentor and a member of this program now for three summers, I had a pretty good
idea of what to expect during my internship, but had goals for myself regarding how I wanted
to grow throughout the summer. As a rising senior I wanted to narrow down what interested
me for after college, and through my internship doing marketing and communications for the
Baltimore City Mayor's Office I have narrowed down that marketing and communications is
the field of work I would like to work in after college. The tasks I had during my time at the
Mayor's Office were busy but very interesting. I woke up at 5am to send out daily Newsclips
(weekends too!) to keep my office up to date on current events, assisted with media
advisories, and was shuttled around to various press events that the Mayor attended. This
summer pushed me differently than the other internships I have had through this program.
My past two summers at the 29th Street Community Center and the Franciscan Center were
both exhausting physically and extremely eye opening. I saw how many government
decisions affected people living in the city, but this summer I got to see why these decisions
were made even when some of them seemed unfair. My three summers with this program
have taught me so much about Baltimore, and I am extremely grateful for the opportunity I
have had to participate in this program for all of these years. ‐Charlie
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