Two out of three students complete internships (more than 250 each year)
Yuan Li ’11 (New York, NY.), Brandworkers International, legal research intern
Angela Gutierrez ’11 (San Francisco, Calif.), Amicus Inc, research associate
Omolara Adekola ’10 (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Asylum Records, online marketing intern
Linda Nguyen ’10 (Las Vegas, Nev.), Saint Paul Public Schools Student Placement Center
Jason Rodney ’10 (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), Council on Crime and Justice, research intern
Tom Lisi ’10 (Port Washington, N.Y.), Minnesota State Public Defender’s Office, intern
Daniel Balogh ’10 (St. Paul, Minn.), 180 Degrees, Schools and Prisons intern
Rebecca Holohan ’10 (Newton, Mass.), Girls’ LEAP Self-Defense, project manager
Monna Wong ’10 (Bayside, N.Y.), On Track alternative learning center, intern
Brittany Lewis ’09 (St. Paul, Minn.), Minnesota State Capitol, Rep. Neva Walker, legislative intern
Mara Forster-Smith ’09 (St. Paul, Minn.), Neighborhood House, program coordinator
Ellie Craig, ’10 (Indianapolis, Ind.), Penumbra Theatre, Wilson Oral History lab intern
Laina Copley ’10 (Aptos, Calif.), Midwest Food Connection, special project coordinator
Dimitri Da Gama Rose ’10 (Nairobi, Kenya), Minnesota for Matt, research intern
Elizabeth Scholz ’10 (Cairo, Egypt), Centro, Siembra intern
Bryce Slinger, ’10 (Raleigh, N.C.), WakeMed Emergency Department, trauma volunteer
Eartha Bell ’11 (Minneapolis, Minn.), Dayton’s Bluff Elementary School, literacy tutor
Arella Varga ’11 (St. Paul, Minn.), Industrial Workers of the World, organizing intern
Chloe Nelson ’10 (Atherton, Calif.), San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art
Claire Briguglio ’09 (Williamstown, Mass.), Urban Arts Academy, arts administration intern
Legacy Russell ’09 (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
Radostin Penchev ’10 (Sofia, Bulgaria) participated in summer research at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
James Engeln ’09 (Colorado Springs, Colo.) conducted research in Costa Rica on the ecology and extraction of Euterpe precatoria, a species of palm.
Skadi von Reis Crooks ’09 (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) studied how non-native seagrass was affecting associated fish assemblages at the Friday Harbor Laboratories in Washington.
Simin Golestani ’09 (Middleton, Wis.), research associate, Hennepin County Medical Center Emergency Medicine Dept
Michael Waul ’09 (St. Catherine, Jamaica), research associate, Hennepin County Medical Center Emergency Medicine Dept.
Eshita Sethi ’11 (Haryana, India) and Manoj Vemula ’10 (Bangalore, India), Punch and Associates.
Joshua Paulson ’10 (River Falls, Wis.), Community Reinvestment Fund USA.
Horatiu Kraus ’10 (Tirgu Jai, Romania) and Aleksander Azarnov ’10 (Johvi, Estonia), Merrill Lynch.
Tatiana Craine ’11 (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Graywolf Press, marketing intern
Julia Tyler ’10 (Genesee Depot, Wis.), Westminster Presbyterian Church, youth minister intern and Lilly Fellow
Harley Brown ’09 (Brookline, Mass.), St. Paul Public Schools, web design intern
Timothy Lehman ’09 (Mechanicsville, Va.), Twin Cities Daily Planet, citizen journalist
Rebecca Morales ’09 (Hayward, Wis.) and Alison Liss ’09 (Champaign, Ill.), Milkweed Editions, marketing interns
Katherine Petershack ’09 (Madison, Wis.), NEED Magazine, editorial and production intern
Megan Ritchie ’09 (Plymouth, Minn.), Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, marketing intern
Matt Seidholz ’09 (Omaha, Neb.), Washburn High School, AVID tutor
Lauren Ballewske ’10 (Racine, Wis.), Dovetail Partners, Green Building research intern
Rebekah Holmes ’10 (Blooming Prairie, Minn.), Neighborhood Energy Connection, Hour Car marketing intern
Cara Weggler ’10 (Tulsa, Okla.), Eureka Recycling, event planning intern
Molly Brown ’10 (Portsmouth, N.H.), Transit for Livable Communities, community outreach intern
Rose Betzler ’09 (Northfield, Minn.) and Carl Skarbek ’11 (Louisville, Ky.), Great River Greening
Kate Ballard ’09 (Albuquerque, N.M.), Andrew Ehrmann ’09 (Dillon, Colo.), Joseph Adamji ’08(Evanston, Ill.), and John Simkins ’08 (Galesburg, Ill.), United Auto Workers – Ford Plant Site
Sam Adels ’09 (Elkins Park, Pa.), Kai Bosworth ’10 (Spearfish, S.D.), Asa Diebolt ’09 (Freeville, N.Y.), Ellie Jones ’10 (Baltimore, Md.), and Rebecca Schneider ’09 (Larchmont, N.Y.), The Minnesota Project
Cael Warren ’09 (Stevens Point, Wis.), Andrew Yokom ’09 (Arden Hills, Minn.), and Sarah Claassen ’08 (Salina, Kan.), Land Stewardship Project
Megan Crawley ’09 (Shawnee Mission, Kan.), Experimental Learning International, wildlife volunteer
Nate Van Wylen ’09 (Northfield, Minn.) and Emily Sharrow ’09 (Cincinnati, Ohio), Green Institute
Joseph Rasmussen ’11 (Hartford, Wis.), legislative intern, MPIRG
Victoria Harris ’09 (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.), Mayor’s Forum
Nick Kahn ’09 (Brooklyn, N.Y.), St. Paul Planning and Economic Development
Eli Popuch ’09 (Chicago, Ill.), Community Affairs Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Caroline Rendon ’09 (Des Moines, Ia.), green card assistant, International Institute of Minnesota
Rebecca Roberts ’09 (Anchorage, Alaska), Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, hydrology student intern
Emily Dunn ’09 (Madison, Wis.), Clean Water Action, student intern
Marina Test ’10 (Bronx, N.Y.), Street Attack, intern
Elizabeth Diaz ’09 (Arden Hills, Minn.), Riverview Economic Development Association, marketing intern
Laura Cullenward ’09 (Madison, Wis.) and Joseph Adamji ’08 (Evanston, Ill.), La Oportunidad, Inc.
Carolina Lopez ’09 (Bronx, N.Y.), Casa de Esperanza, refugee volunteer
Lan Tsoi ’09 (Hong Kong, China), Syreeta Wilkins ’08 (Burnsville, Minn.), and Francesca Hack ’08 (Verona, Wis.), Centro Cultural Chicano
Molly Brookfield ’09 (St Paul, Minn.) interned as an archival assistant at the Ramsey County Historical Society.
Kaylie Burns ’09 (Albuquerque, N.M.) interned at the St. Paul Public Schools Student Placement Center as part of her course on schools and prisons.
Emily Cohen ’09 (Columbus, Ohio) interned as a Lilly Fellow at the St. Paul Interfaith Network.
Anne Reeder ’09 (Salem, Ore.) worked as a writer for Rainbow Rumpus.
Kirsten Kohlhase ’09 (Minneapolis, Minn.) interned as an organizer for Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Alexander Davies ’10 (Pelham, N.Y.) worked as a marketing intern for the Independent Film Channel.
Allesandra Fuhrman ’10 (Boulder, Colo.) was a labor education intern with the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service.
Bassam Khawaja ’11 (Beirut, Lebanon) worked as an education special projects intern for Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.
Siddarth Saikia ’10 (New Delhi, India), photographer and videographer, The Story Laboratory
Kristin Riegel ’10 (Batavia, N.Y.) received a Phillips Scholar grant to develop an initiative to empower Latina girls.
Karla Leon ’10 (Quito, Ecuador), marketing intern, Casa de Esperanza
FALL 2009
Katherine Harger ’09 (Grand Rapids, Mich.), research assistant, R. Mark Frey, attorney at law
Mishal Khan ’10 (Islamabad, Pakistan), legal intern, Halunen & Associates
Margaret McLane ’09 (Edina, Minn.), refugee and immigrant program intern, Advocates for Human Rights
Cassie Veach ’09 (Grand Haven, Mich.), research intern, The Center for Victims of Torture
Laura Buchholz ’07 (Portland, Ore.), research intern, NEED Magazine, and news monitor, Resource Center of the Americas
Rachel Miller ’09 (North Brunswick, N.J.), intern for U.S. Representative Rush Holt
Korey Haynes ’09 (Baltimore, Md.) studied coulomb crystals in a dusty plasma at Baylor University.
Seth McIntire ’09 (Seattle, Wash.) characterized ultrafast lasers at Stony Brook University, N.Y.
Jillian Scudder ’09 (Sarasota, Fla.) studied the impact of dark energy, the cosmic microwave background, at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in Paris, France.
Katherine Clifford ’09 (Olympia, Wash.), community investing intern (ELP) for University National Bank
Oriel Fernandes ’09 (Mumbai, India), public housing intern for Minnesota Housing Partnership
Alexander Katz ’10 (Tucson, Ariz.), communications intern for Al Franken for Senate
Zachary McDade ’10 (Lyons, Colo.), legislative intern (LP) for the Office of Ann Lenczewski
Kyle Anne Piasecki ’11 (Bettendorf, Iowa), Pastrnak Law Firm, legal intern
Gabriela Chambi ’11 (Manhattan, Kan.), Immigrant Law Center, Violence Against Women Act / U Visa intern
Calanthe Cope-Kasten ’11 (Ripon, Wis.), Al Franken for Senate, scheduling intern
Kristina Doan ’10 (Chanhassen, Minn.), Schroeder Ireland, legal intern
Estela Shabani ’11 (Vlore, Albania) served and observed at United Hospital in a variety of capacities including helping with patient discharge, pharmacy, and shadowing an ER doctor.
Shubha Singh ’10 (Fargo, N.D.) served as a recovery room patient support assistant at Planned Parenthood.
Jenny Lee ’09 (Circle Pines, Minn.) also served and observed at United Hospital in St. Paul.
Laura Klingbeil ’09 (Wells, Minn.) completed a surgical internship at La Clinica San Miguel in St. Paul.
Zainab Mansaray ’09 (Freetown, Sierra Leone) completed an internship at Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis.
Miles Hang ’09 (Hsinchu, Taiwan) trained as a nutrition research intern at Open Arms of Minnesota, which caters to HIV patients.
Nathan Van Wylen ’09 (Northfield, Minn.) traveled to Peru to study community health delivery to children in rural Peru.
Nathaniel Crider ’08 (Downers Grove, Ill.) was an emergency department research associate at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.
Christopher Olson ’09 (Tokyo, Japan), Fraser Children’s Center, an organization for children with special needs
Peggy Polta ’11 (Golden Valley, Minn.), Family Tree, a reproductive health clinic
Erica Tohtz ’09 (Livingston, Mont.), Midwest Health Center for Women
Kristin Lofquist ’09 (Burnsville, Minn.), Johanna Cohn ’08 (Whitefish Bay, Wis.), and Carissa Kaufman ’08 (Minneapolis, Minn.), Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps, community interns
David Schmoeller ’11 (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Macalester Sustainability Office, EcoHouse sustainability intern
Sher Afgan Tareen ’11 (Arlington, Va.), McCain ’08, Headquarters, intern
Aurora Sekine ’09 (Kansas City, Mo.), Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C., program assistant
Liza Baer ’09 (Stillwater, Minn.), L’Institute d’Etudes de l’Islam et des
Societes du Monde Musulman (The Institute for the study of Islam and Societies of the Muslim World), Paris, translation intern
Jenna Perkins ’10 (Medina, Minn.), National Wind, LLC, off-taker work group intern
Courtney Flathers ’10 (Coos Bay, Ore.), Minnesota House of Representatives
Michelle Thomas ’10 (Rose Valley, Pa.), Sexual Offense Services of Ramsey County
Miroslav Lestanin ’09 (Split, Croatia), Cortec Corporation, human resources assistant
Chen-Yu Wu ’09 (Bangkok, Thailand) Institute for Social Research
Todd Copenhaver ’09 (Wellesley, Mass.), Community Reinvestment Fund, credit analyst intern
Alexandra Zoellner ’11 (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Jeremiah Program, volunteer and event management intern
Stacey Liou ’10 (San Marino, Calif.), Minnesota DFL Party, assistant to grassroots organizer
Kayoua Vang ’09 (St. Paul, Minn.), Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment, Inc. (leadership development for immigrant women), Girls Getting Ahead in Leadership intern and youth program intern; R. Mark Frey, attorney at law, research assistant.
Anna Wielgosz ’09 (Woodridge, Ill.), Cedar-Riverside People’s Center (health clinic), patient education intern
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