Word: telyan
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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Christine A. Telyan ’04 knows how. For someone who says she tries to think about politics in “a real way,” someone who passionately refuses to play into all that slime that she believes all-too-often characterizes the field she has always known she would enter, Telyan has become remarkably skilled in the art of making connections. But she thinks there’s nothing slimy about networking. “Running for office, you have to be creative,” she says. “You have...
...order to get to know the in-the-know set, Telyan says she tries to be a go-getter. Her strategy has proven successful. She and Ceci Connolly, a senior writer at the Washington Post, hang out regularly. Once Telyan and a senior writer at The New York Times met for drinks to talk about an education reform project she was working on for a summer internship...
Perhaps more influential in getting her these connections than her ability to go-get, Telyan says, has been her association with Harvard. Future leaders need networks, she says, and “Harvard hooks...
...Telyan, too, finds fault with the current political system. She plans to fund her future campaigns without succumbing to entanglements with interest groups. “I’ve always been suspicious of people who try to parse the political discussion in twain,” she says. “You need people who are beholden to no one but the issues...
...Telyan realizes that serving in public office is hard. She recognizes that a lot of responsibility comes with the title of public servant. “But,” she says, “I have faith in the fact that I could be a public servant. I’m a dreamer, yeah. But I try to keep my feet on the ground.” Coughlin, too, has faith in himself. This faith is especially apparent when he explains just how sure he is that he’ll one day be president. Without pausing for more...