It was finals week at NYU and Lindsey Melki '04 was racing from grueling exam to exam in courses like foundations of finance and corporate finance, grinding toward dual master’s degrees in business administration and public administration.
But this was easy duty.
Especially for a lady with a bachelor's degree from West Point and more than seven years in the military behind her, including 500 combat hours in Black Hawk helicopters over Baghdad in the 4th Battalion of the 3rd Aviation Regiment of the U.S. Army.
"This fall, I will start NYU's Wagner School of Government working on a master's in government administration," she says. "I'd like to work in city government, in veterans affairs, helping my fellow veterans. I was lucky to be chosen for a David Bohnett Fellowship that is paying for my tuition."
No, lucky us.
We could use more women with real-life experience in city government.
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