Interning in the Senate is not very much like playing professional football, but Jalen Travis has found some overlap.
“Grinders win. That’s something I learned on the field first and something that was reinforced during my time on the Hill,” Travis said recently, looking back on his brief stint at the Capitol. He was there only 10 weeks, but he settled into a routine.
Every morning was about football. While most of Washington slept, he’d wake up before dawn and either take a bus from his downtown apartment to the YMCA off 14th Street Northwest, or he’d get in a workout at nearby Gonzaga College High School. By 7 a.m. he was shifting into intern mode, heading to the Hill to work for Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.
