By Ariana Kertsman This summer I interned with the Racial Justice Clinic (RJC) at the University of San Francisco’sLaw School, where I researched cases of people currently incarcerated in California’s prison system,wrote memos and case summaries, and performed organizational tasks assigned to me. I am grateful tothe attorneys at the clinic who were willing to […]
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By Sadie Esch Laurent The BLI grant helped pay for a summer studying and working in Dublin. I interned at a hotel andtook two classes during my two months in Ireland. My main challenge was that my internshipwas not as it was initially described. Before starting, I was told certain tasks that I would bedoing
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By Colleen Hardman Thanks to the Barger Leadership Student Grant, I was able to take the Leadership in Energyand Environmental Design Green Associate exam through the United States Green BuildingCouncil, an organization that is focused on sustainability within the building industry throughboth revitalization of existing infrastructure and the creation of new buildings. This certificationserves as
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A small grant from the BLI and a FABULOUS access opportunity allowed me to go on a chance of lifetime-six weeks in England, talking about the “beautiful game” of football ~ British English for American soccer. Something that many people do not think about is the process to study or intern abroad. For this international
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The Start-Up Environment Interning at a start-up has been a completely new experience for me. The work culture is very much how one would expect a start-up to be – quiet, small and scenic. In fact, my first day was also the first day of the first employees they hired, and it was the first
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By Brian Lee I was interning for the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). They are a not for a profit think tank that tries to measure peace in the world by developing a global peace index. In the organization, I was doing some in-house consulting for a philanthropist that wanted to measure the cost-effectiveness
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By By Kate Marciniak This summer I was an employer engagement intern at a financial technology startup company called Squirrel in London, England for two months. The team consisted of about 10 people which was very unique in that I had direct contact with every ‘department’ of the company within one room. I was given
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I worked with OBAT Helpers, an NGO in Bangladesh, conducting ethnographic research on maternal care in Urdu-speaking minority camps in Bangladesh. I explored how women in these camps accessed and used maternal care and whether their status as minorities affected their access to care. I informally interviewed several pregnant women and mothers across the various
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This summer I ventured to South Africa to indulge myself in this country’s healthcare system in order to learn as much as I could in a short 6 weeks. I first interned at the South African Christian Leadership Assembly, which is a non-profit organization that focuses on public health projects. More specifically, SACLA specializes in
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This summer, with the support of the Barger Leadership Institute, I had the opportunity to intern for Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) in Anchorage, Alaska. ICC is a nonprofit that advocates for the Inuit, the native people who have inhabited the Arctic regions of Russia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland for untold generations. My internship was a
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