Tag: internship series
Student Internship Stories: Amanda Primosch (CFA, COM ’22), Young Artists of America
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? AP: This summer, I continued to be an intern with Young Artists of America (YAA), a nonprofit performing arts organization that seeks to train young students into the best performers and people they can be. YAA provides classes in singing, acting, and dancing, as ...
Student Internship Stories: Melinda Stackpole (SAR’23), COVID-19 Action Coalition
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? MS: The COVID-19 Action Coalition (COVAC) is a non-profit organization made up of physicians, college students, and other volunteers who aim to disperse accurate public health information about the COVID-19 pandemic to the general public, specifically in Massachusetts. They deliver this information through social media, ...
Student Internship Stories: Chloe McKim Jepsen (CAS’22), Massachusetts Housing Coalition
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? CMJ: I served as the Marketing and Policy Intern for the Massachusetts Housing Coalition, a new nonprofit organization based in Boston. MHC aims to promote the creation of affordable housing in Massachusetts through advocacy of adequate access to transportation, sustainable practices, and racial social, and ...
Student Internship Stories: Anna Yingst (CAS’22) Environment Colorado
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? During the fall semester of 2020, I worked as a campaign assistant with Environment Colorado Research and Policy Center. Environment Colorado’s mission is to make the world a greener and healthier place for all, with help from people who care deeply about the environment and ...
Student Internship Stories: Marielis Rosa (CAS’23) Volunteer Lawyers Project
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? MR: I worked in the DotHouse Legal Clinic at the VLP, a Medical Legal Partnership with DotHouse Health, a health care center in Dorchester, MA. I would describe my role at the clinic as an intake case manager. My supervisors assigned me cases referred to ...
Student Internship Stories: Mariam Bashiru (SAR ’23), Multi-Service Eating Disorder Association
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? MB: If you said to me that I would work in an eating disorder clinic last year, I wouldn’t believe it. Even though I knew general information about eating disorders, they were still an enigma to me. So when I found this internship opportunity at ...
Student Internship Stories: Max Ferrandino (CAS ’23), The Borgen Project
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? OS: I worked at a nonprofit called the Borgen Project as a political affairs intern. The Borgen Project is an organization that lobbies Congress to try to get legislation passed that would support those who are living in poverty around the world, which would be ...
Student Internship Stories: Kaye Chin (CAS’23), Mid Peninsula Boys & Girls Club
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? KC: During my internship, I worked in various areas of the Mid Peninsula Boys & Girls Club of San Mateo County. As an intern, I was able to support community outreach and marketing which allowed me to use many skills I already had and challenged ...
Student Internship Stories: Tima Dasouki (CAS’22), Office of Senator Elizabeth Warren
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? TD: I was a policy intern at Senator Elizabeth Warren's Boston Office. My main responsibilities were conducting outreach with the Senator's constituents, authoring weekly briefings to keep the Senator's office informed on local legislative issues and delivering administrative support with data coordination, document management, material ...
Student Internship Stories: Darren Liu (CAS’22), Stanford School of Medicine
CCD: Tell us about your experience. What were your responsibilities? DL: Every summer, I volunteer in a bioinformatics lab (Salzman Lab) close by to my home. Responsibilities change from year to year, but generally, I get assigned to a grad student or a research assistant and help them with their projects. General responsibilities include writing ...
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