Nura Zaki

About Nura Zaki

Nura is a senior at Valparaiso University studying Political Science with a concentration in Legal Studies. This summer she is interning with Lutheran Services of America, one of the largest not-for-profit health and human services networks in the country. She will join the Public Policy and Member Engagement team in their work identifying opportunities to connect members in meaningful ways, sharing learnings and best practices, identifying funding opportunities and bringing members together to promote practitioner informed policies. Nura also looks forward to mastering the Metro and being inspired by the D.C. metropolitan area for all its wonders.

Who is (not) my Neighbor?

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The Sunday of Independence Day weekend, I woke up bright and early to attend a worship service at a new church in my neighborhood. Previous weekends, you could find me at what I would consider to be a “popular church”- a well-attended, multi-satellite, free donuts before service kind of congregation located in a theater. You can picture it, can’t you? I’d chosen this welcoming community for the past weeks because I enjoyed the company of a friend who went there. The only inconvenience about this arrangement was that the church was located quite far from where we were living to the point where we had to take a train and walk a significant distance to get there. I had been wanting to support a local congregation for some time, so when my friend went out of town for the weekend I decided to do so then. I spotted a local […]

The “Firsts” of Many

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This week marks one month living and interning in our nation’s capitol. Each day begins with me walking wide-eyed up Capitol Hill as government buildings and monuments peep through the trees on my daily commute. I’m so grateful to be participating in such a fellowship where I live and work in intentional community. Being the first of my suite-mates to arrive in the city set in-motion a series of ‘firsts’; my first train ride, first wrong stop on the way home (not all Metro lines are created equal), first to realize our door can lock on its own (it’s not a loss if you learn?) and my first fire alarm scare (if it’s not right when you’re ready for bed, did it really happen?). With those kind of experiences also came the first time I saw the view from our terrace at dusk, my first Metro card and ride paid for by a […]