{"id":1564,"date":"2026-05-04T20:46:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:46:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:46:59","slug":"diplomacy-student-spotlight-jaxon-carey-office-of-senator-jerry-moran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/2026\/05\/04\/diplomacy-student-spotlight-jaxon-carey-office-of-senator-jerry-moran\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomacy Student Spotlight: Jaxon Carey- Office of Senator Jerry Moran"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jaxon Carey, a Diplomacy and International Relations major at Seton Hall University, is interning in Washington, D.C., through the D.C. Program, working in the Office of Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas. For Jaxon, the placement has a personal dimension as a Kansas native; the opportunity to serve constituents from his home state has made the experience especially meaningful.<\/p>\n

Jaxon’s day-to-day responsibilities reflect the breadth of work required to run a Senate office. He prepares meeting memos for the office’s legislative teams and conducts research ahead of key engagements with stakeholders and organizations. One notable example was his research on a fuselage manufacturing facility opening in Kansas ahead of his team’s meeting with Bell Textron, an assignment that gave him firsthand exposure to the intersection of industrial policy and federal legislative work. Beyond research, he represents the office by leading guided tours of the Capitol for visiting constituents, walking them through the building’s history and the institutions that define American democracy.<\/p>\n

Much of Jaxon’s work has focused on Senator Moran’s defense, aviation, and space legislative teams, where his projects have ranged from policy research and appropriations requests to outreach to external groups ahead of office meetings. These assignments have sharpened his understanding of how legislative priorities are developed and advanced at the federal level.<\/p>\n

A highlight of his time in the Senate has been attending events that connect Kansas leaders with the nation’s capital. Representing diverse sectors, including manufacturing, livestock, and agriculture, these leaders offered Jaxon a ground-level view of the policy issues shaping his home state and reinforced his sense of purpose in public service.<\/p>\n

His interest in agricultural policy fits naturally within the Kansas political landscape, where farm policy, rural development, and trade carry enormous weight for constituents. Working in Senator Moran’s office has deepened Jaxon’s appreciation for how federal policy decisions ripple outward, affecting communities across the country.<\/p>\n

The experience has confirmed what Jaxon already suspected: he wants to build a career in the legislative branch. He sees himself returning to Washington after graduation to work on policy issues that link diplomacy, domestic priorities, and the lives of everyday Americans. His time in Senator Moran’s office has given him both a foundation and the conviction to do exactly that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jaxon Carey, a Diplomacy and International Relations major at Seton Hall University, is interning in Washington, D.C., through the D.C. Program, working in the Office of Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas. For Jaxon, the placement has a personal dimension as a Kansas native; the opportunity to serve constituents from his home state has made the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/schoolofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}