American red cross intern12/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Jada Jenkins: At the Red Cross, my top priority is working on the “In Case You Missed It” reel for all of our social media, which is a one-minute video summarizing what the GNY Red Cross has accomplished in the past week. What does a typical day at your internship look like? That started a conversation that eventually led to the internship I currently have. To meet the internship requirement, I knew I wanted my internship to involve those three things, and so I reached out to the chief clerk of the county in February about the possibility of doing an internship at the county. I’m proudly from Elk County, I care deeply about rural communities, and I’m interested in local government. I also had the opportunity to participate in the May primary election process, helping pre-canvass mail-in ballots and witnessing the election returns process. As an intern, I’ve experienced first-hand the various county offices, departments, and functions sat in on meetings and completed research and reports for local officials. I am putting together a report that documents the current exhibits’ conditions, as well as proposing immersive and interactive exhibits and experiences for the future building.Īidan Bobik ’24: I am an intern at the Elk County Commissioners’ Office in Elk County, Pennsylvania. And I was definitely proven right! As funny as it sounds, there’s just a different energy here that I’ve never experienced.Ībigail Vendura ’25: My internship is at the Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village, which is getting relocated and renovated in the next couple years. For my specific career field, I feel like New York is an amazing place to be. You could live there for the summer while you do an internship, and I immediately applied. I found out about this program, at Fordham University. Here my work is a lot more varied, but it all boils down to helping find roles for the clients! My other internship is with Brookside Artist Management, which is an entertainment agency. ![]() ![]() Here, I help make a lot of the video content for our social media. Jada Jenkins ’26: I’m actually doing two internships this summer! One internship is with the Greater New York Red Cross, for which I’m a communications and social engagement intern. These conversations have been edited for brevity and clarity. By engaging in real-world working experiences, they deepened their connection to what they’ve learned in the classroom.īelow are interviews with three Chatham undergrads who spent their summers developing new career skills in New York City Buffalo, New York and Ridgway, Pennsylvania. They developed social media content for internationally recognized nonprofits, gone behind the scenes in local elections, and developed immersive museum exhibits. Chatham University students this summer acquired internships from Buffalo, New York to Barcelona, Spain. ![]()
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