STEVEN HERSHKOWITZ

Student Regent, Anne Arundel County
Appointed July 2012

Steven Hershkowitz is a master's candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) in the School of Public Policy with a specialization in education policy. In May of 2012, he graduated from UMCP with a bachelor's in Government and Politics and a minor in Philosophy. As an undergraduate, Hershkowitz was a President's Scholarship Recipient, and a member of several programs including Federal Semester, Beyond the Classroom, and College Park Scholars, where he won the Outstanding Achievement Award for the Media, Self, and Society citation class of 2010. For the 2011-2012 academic year, he served as the Student Government Association's Chief of Staff, and participated in various university committees including the New Student Welcome Planning Committee and the College Park City-University Partnership Education Committee. He also served as the undergraduate student member of UMCP's 2011-2012 Provost Search Committee. Hershkowitz has interned for Congressman Steve Israel (NY-02), the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. USM students, faculty, and staff can contact Hershkowitz at shershko@terpmail.umd.edu.