WRI alumni student leaders have gone on to excel in graduate school, law school and/or have secured relevant work in community-based agenices throughout the city, since their formal leadership training at WRI. Here is a sampling of what some of our students have done:

• served as Senate intern in Washington, D.C.;
  worked in case management with mentally ill populations at a New York City shelter;
  
• continued to support the work of the Welfare Reform Network, as staff intern of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, while pursuing an MSW at Hunter College School of Social Work;
  
• coordinated programs for women on welfare at Family Learning Center in the Bronx;
  
• secured employment as an elementary school counselor with the Board of Education while pursuing a Masters in Social Work at Hunter College;
  
• served as Community Liason Coordinator with the New York City Census;
  
• completed their Masters in Divinity at Union Theological Seminary;
  
• served as community organizer at Kingsbridge Heights Neighborhood Improvement Association in the Bronx;
  
• became a preventative services coordinator for Graham Children's Services in Brooklyn;
  
• secured a community action internship at Urban Justice Center;
  
• graduated from NYU School of Social of Social Work, secured their CSW, and now works for Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn as the Outpatient Adult Clinics Social Worker and as a therapist in their mental health facility;
  
• moved from welfare when they became a teller at Apple Bank and acquired additional part-time in retail sales at the Gap;
• completed a Masters at the Columbia School of Journalism and secured a journalism post at the New York Times;
  
• started their own construction company, Collins Construction (which hires people on welfare) at the same time they enrolled in Brooklyn Law School, and completed an internship at a major New York City law firm a s a part of their law degree;