- Class of 2023 Washington Semester Program students pose on the steps of the Capitol in fall 2021.
- Gary DeAngelis, Washington Semester Program director, in his Smith Hall office (left) and David O’Brien, program founder and professor emeritus of history.
- Joe McDonough ’72 (right), the first Holy Cross student to study in D.C., meeting once again with U.S. Rep. Michael Harrington (D-MA), for whom he interned in the program.
- Program alumna Alicia Molt-West ’09, special assistant to President Joe Biden and House legislative affairs liaison, with the president and First Lady Jill Biden.
- Perez visiting D.C. with his father on a school trip in 2015 and recreating the photo in August 2021, after moving to the city for the program.
“In Mexican culture, storytelling is a value we hold very dearly,” explains Jaime Perez ’23, an Arizona native and child of Mexican immigrants, who spent fall 2021 in the nation’s capital as a member of the College’s highly competitive Washington Semester Program, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.