CFANS Student Enjoys Being in the Middle of the Action

This semester’s recipient of the RFA scholarship is Lucas Sjostrom, a sophomore agricultural education major. The biggest surprise for him: “The privileges I was given right away,” he says.

Lucas Sjostrom and Rep. Collin Peterson

Since starting the internship in January, Sjostrom has been involved in everything from setting up committee hearings and gathering briefing materials to ferrying mail and documents to other parts of the U.S. Capitol. “We were given full staff privileges right away,” he says. He and a student from Texas A&M are the only two interns in the Agriculture Committee offices this semester.  

“I kind of wondered when I went out there whether they would even let me get close to Rep. Peterson,” says the 20-year-old from Lafayette, Minn. “But we’re doing pretty meaningful stuff.”      

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