Category: All Things Intern
Internship Insights: Learning from Friends and Classmates
Finding an internship can be tricky–and the Center for Career Development is here to help. But did you know your classmates and peers are here to help you, too? Each semester the Center for Career Development runs an event, Internship Insights, where students who have completed internships sit on a panel and answer questions from ...
Student Internship Stories: Aarthi Gopalan (CAS ‘23), The Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI)
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? AP: The Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) provides statewide advocacy and leadership in advancing laws, policies, and practices that secure economic, racial, and social justice for low-income people and communities. The Race Equity and Justice Project advocates for people of color and works to dismantle ...
Student Internship Stories: Katie Barnes (CAS ‘22), New York League of Conservation Voters
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? KB: During my internship with NYLCV, I worked with the development department. Mostly, I worked on planning fundraising events and researching potential major donors to the organization. During my internship, I helped to plan the organization's annual gala, which is an event that hundreds of ...
Student Internship Stories: Jacob Rose (QST ‘24), Hearts for the Homeless International
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? JR: As a company, Hearts for the Homeless International provides free and informative heart health education events. We additionally have chapters at over 30 college campuses across the US that provide blood pressure readings and heart health information approved by the American Heart Association to ...
Alex Shores ( SAR’24), Entertainment to Affect Change
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? AS: Entertainment to Affect Change (E2AC) is a nonprofit organization focused on finding creating, and sharing stories with a social impact. They do so by developing social impact podcasts, impact producing short films, and now by hosting a virtual film festival, where filmmakers from across ...
Linda Pham (CAS’23), Asian American Resource Workshop
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? LP: Over the course of this semester, I had the opportunity to intern with Asian American Resource Workshop as their organizing and research intern. Asian American Resource Workshop is a nonprofit and member-led organization striving to aid Asian Americans through political, educational, and economical issues. ...
Student Internship Stories: Annette O’Dell (QST’ 23), Facets Chicago
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? AO: I had the pleasure to be a Festival Programming Intern for Facets Chicago, a film nonprofit organization that aims to bring films to children. Specifically, I was an intern for the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, which is put on annually in November by ...
Student Internship Stories: Priscilla Bright ( CAS’23), The Guild of Boston Artists
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? PB: The Guild of Boston Artists is a gallery that is unique in many ways. It is the only contemporary representational art gallery in Boston, it is deeply rooted in its history, and although it is run on a small staff, those who work there ...
Student Internship Stories: Hadeel Abu Ktasih (CAS ’22), International Institute of New England
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? HA: The International Institute of New England is a non-profit resettlement agency that works to integrate migrants, refugees, trafficking victims, and asylum seekers into the United States by providing basic services, English classes, career help, legal counsel, and a number of other aid resources. My ...
Student Internship Stories: Abigail Hulick (QST’ 22), Raising A Reader Massachusetts
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? AH: I spent my time interning for Raising A Reader Massachusetts, an organization dedicated to closing the literacy opportunity gap primarily through their Red Book Bag program and parent education workshops. They serve families with children from birth to six years by partnering with after-school ...
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