In an interview with The Crimson, Donovan emphasized the growing challenge of attracting students to careers in government.
“What worries me the most is that the recent Congress shutdown will turn off young, idealistic people towards public service and working in government,” he said. “For me, the hardest thing was to find government, and that only happened by luck. To overcome that, I would encourage people to give public service a chance.”
Finally, Donovan encouraged students to formulate their own career paths through meaningful public service.
“All of us have different paths to find our way, so I can’t tell you what to do next or what your passion will be, but what I can tell you is to serve,” he said. “When you serve, you follow your passion. If you serve and you call yourself to be more than what you think you can be, this world can be more than what we think we can be.”