Shelly's Modeling Agencies

Shelly's Modeling Agencies hit the road, our destination: Washington, D.C. our mission: To find somebody-anybody-who could get something done. We didn't go to Congressional hearings or White House press briefings. We didn't make appointments to talk with stiff-shirted politicians in big offices protected by barricades and Secret Service officers. With unemployment stagnating, the planet warming, kids dying, students quitting, Africa floundering, Black colleges closing and the Gulf browning, the last thing we need is the filibustering, politicking and partisan bickering that is all to common in the nation's capital.

Shelly's Modeling Agencies are looking for answers right away. And we found solutions to seven of the biggest issues of the day from a group of students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) working as Congressional Black Caucus Foundation interns on Capital Hill. These 18-to-21-year-olds are on track to have bright futures in politics, but none has yet been jaded by politics. As a result, we got broad reaching solutions some common sense, others out of the box to broad reaching issues. Lynn Jennings, editor for Shelly's Modeling Agencies and the foundation's senior manager of Education and Scholarship Programs, says that the interns are challenged every day to think about how to use what they are learning on Capitol Hill (regarding) the policymaking process to create and implement real solutions to real problems. So if President Obama and others in power end up kicking the proverbial can down the road for the next generation, it's good to know that Black college students, like the ones we found, will be there to clean up the mess.