Meet John Goodman
Legislative/Communications Intern

As a seven-year-old, I thought that my best friend’s invitation to attend our county’s Junior Grange Camp would simply give me something to do over the summer months. Hardly could I imagine that all these years later, I would end up working in our national headquarters.

I grew up in the Hookstown Grange in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. As a Junior Granger, I to do was show up, play the piano and sing!

I attended South Side High School in Southwestern Pennsylvania, and when I wasn’t playing drums in the marching band, I spent most of my time dreaming of a career in ministry and/or politics. This remained my dream as a foreign exchange student in Hong Kong for my senior year of high school, and in fact, I still study in both of these fields – in the church, I’m a licensed local ministerial candidate, and as for my undying thirst for politics, I currently attend American University as a freshman in the School of Public Affairs with a major in Interdisciplinary Studies: Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government.

I don’t consider working for the National Grange to be anything less than a privilege. I know that it’s rare to garner such great, real world experience in your field of study during the first year of college, and I can honestly say that I genuinely look forward to waking up and heading to work every Tuesday and Friday morning.

That’s probably all you need to know about me, but if I had to throw in one more thing just for the fun of it, I’d tell you that I collect neckties. So far, I own 180 of them, and they all hang from the ceiling of my dorm room.

But on a more serious note, there aren’t too many causes I support more than that of promoting rural America. As a proud product of rural America, I view it as an honor to have the opportunity to further our interests here in the Capital of our Nation, and I’m really looking forward to doing so over the coming months.