Meet the Columnist: Matt

When I was a junior in high school, I started writing a political blog. Although I now update it quite rarely, for three years, it was my primary hobby and the blog garnered links and mentions from the websites of several national political publications. Since then, I have done much more formal political writing.

Starting the summer before my senior year and continuing into the beginning of my sophomore year at Northwestern, I was a staff writer for Campus Progress, a division of the Center for American Progress that funds and publishes young progressive writers. This meant writing blog posts and reported articles and, during the summer of 2009, I was an intern for Campus Progress in Washington, D.C.

The following school year, I was a columnist and assistant editor for North by Northwestern and wrote a weekly column called "Why You Should Care." The column would introduce a policy issue and then explain its importance to Northwestern students. I wrote over 30 columns. This past summer, I was an intern at The New Republic, a political magazine in Washington, D.C. There, I wrote or co-wrote four articles for the website and 12 blog posts. I am also a staff columnist for the Northwestern Art Review and a staff editor at Helicon, Northwestern's literary magazine.