Sophia Jiang - Future Politician?

Sophia Jiang ’26 spent part of her summer interning with Councilman Carlos Flores of Fort Worth City Council’s District 2 and his office. 

This all started last year during Career Conversations when she chose a session hosted by Jack Carvalho ’17, who is a District Director for Councilman Flores, and the rest is history. Jiang chose his session to hear about Carvalho’s experience working in government and ended up staying in contact with him. She eventually sent her resume to Carvalho who passed it onto Councilman Flores, she interviewed and got the job.

“I was interested in this position because I wanted to learn more about politics in America,” said Jiang. “I also was interested in an internship with the Fort Worth City Council because it gave me a closer look at local politics specifically. After taking Mrs. Teegarden's government class and since I am currently taking AP US History with Mrs. Giroir, I wanted to learn more about politics because it is something I look to potentially study in university. I love history, and this was a way where I could observe politicians use their influence to help citizens of Fort Worth and be part of history myself.”

During her time at City Hall, she was tasked with taking notes on council meetings, drafting press answers for media inquiries, drafting talking points for speaking engagements,  summarizing information the Councilman needed and researching topics the office needed to work on. She also had the opportunity to attend the unveiling of a mural for the MLB's All-Star game in Fort Worth.

“Overall, the internship was very meaningful and rewarding because I was able to observe the workings of our local government,” she said. “I was able to learn to adapt to fast paced meetings or discussions, summarize information concisely, and see how politicians make decisions to help the citizens of Fort Worth. It also aided in my understanding on what it means to be a civically engaged U.S. citizen because on the local scale, your politicians decide on policies that you follow in our daily lives as people from Fort Worth; a civically engaged person elects officials that will address our concerns.”