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- ✍️DraftedSaturday, May 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
- ✓Approved by clientMonday, June 15, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Why I host RISE interns
Right now, two RISE program interns are embedded inside Fail4ward. Not making coffee. Not shadowing. Owning real work, with real stakes, with my name on it. I host interns for one reason. I learned more about leadership from the first person who trusted me with something that mattered at seventeen than from any leadership book I read at thirty-five. The cost of giving a young professional real ownership is low. The cost of withholding it compounds for decades. If you lead an organization without a formal or informal internship program, you are skipping the highest-return, lowest-cost leadership development available. The person running your project this summer is the manager another organization hires in three years. You either build that talent or you complain about not having any. To the 2026 RISE cohort across the DMV: the work is real. What you take from it will outlast the few weeks you spend in the building. The first time someone trusts you with something that matters is the floor of the rest of your career. Does your organization hand young talent real ownership, or just the coffee run?
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