Liberty County High School alumnus Donnie Pulliam spent the summer interning with the Heritage Foundation in Washington.

The foundation is designed to “train, equip and develop tomorrow’s young conservative leaders,” according to heritage.org. Pulliam was selected for the paid internship by a board member.

As the energy and environmental intern, he wrote blogs and conducted research on immigration and economic and foreign policies. Many of Pulliam’s assignments included working at the White House, Supreme Court, Capitol Hill, Mount Vernon and the Pentagon. He worked with research fellows Daren Bakst and Nick Loris at the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policies.

Pulliam is a junior at Morehouse College. His parents are James Payno and Monica Robertson-Payno of Midway