TWIN CITIES HOUSE
Undergraduate
Research Scholar- Center for Health Equity and Clinical and Translational
Science Institute, University of Minnesota
Major:
Public Health- Independent Major Concentration:
Statistics
Profile: I am a senior at St. Olaf College,
studying public health and statistics. I am interested in looking at health
through human rights lenses. I would like to work as public health practitioner
and researcher identifying social determinants of health. I have experiences in
grant writing, teaching and policy advocacy.
Summer Goals: This summer I hope to learn to gain
skills in conducting translational research, and in facilitating focus groups.
I want to gain transferable skills in public speaking and writing. I hope to
contribute to my organization by sharing my passion for public health and
social change.
Literacy Programs Intern,
Project for Pride in Living
Majors: Political Science
& Spanish
Profile: Taylor is hoping to pursue a future related to
education, likely in education administration or policy leadership. She has
been especially impacted by an internship with Literacy Services of Wisconsin,
an adult literacy education center.
Summer Goals: I hope to bring a sense of enthusiasm and a
different set of creative ideas to the literacy programs at PPL by helping
foster a strong group dynamic and positive experience for all the volunteers. I
also hope to learn more about whether or not I find this type of direct-service
educational work fulfilling, meaningful, and relevant to my vocational and
personal vision for my future.
Development Intern, Lutheran
Social Service of Minnesota
Major: Biology
Profile: As a junior at St. Olaf College, I aspire to lead a
life of worth and service; I am exploring the fields of education and
non-profit work after a formative experience in a Costa Rican preschool for impoverished
children.
Summer Goals: I hope to contribute to LSS through my
thoughtfulness and leadership on projects to help them receive funds for their
many programs so that they may serve Minnesotans in need. I hope to gain a
deeper understanding of the organizational structure of larger non-profits and
an ability to evaluate social service programs for their effectiveness.
Public Policy Intern,
Minnesota AIDS Project
Major: Political
Science Concentration: Middle Eastern
Studies
Profile: I believe in the power of individuals to effect
change as I’ve seen through my work on political campaigns, grassroots
organizing, and within the public policy field. I hope attend graduate school
for a degree in public policy and work in the public or non-profit sector.
Summer Goals: I hope to learn about how a non-profit works and
about the field of public policy, specifically healthcare policy while
improving my communication skills through writing and speaking. I aim to devote
myself to learning and absorbing information during my time at MAP so as to be
best able to contribute to the public policy work around the new healthcare
systems in Minnesota this summer. I will provide energy and a positive attitude
towards every task I’m given, as each has the potential to be a learning
experience to help me discern my passions, interests, and talents.
Research and Marketing
Intern, Milkweed Editions
Majors: Biology & Political
Science Concentration: Environmental
Studies
Profile: As a liberal arts student at St. Olaf College, I
have focused my education on the natural and anthropogenic systems that provide
the inspirational foundation for people’s function in society. I want to better
understand how we communicate environmental policy for effective social change.
Following graduation, I hope to somehow pursue a career related to public
affairs and the environment.
Summer Goals: This summer, I intend to spend time consciously
learning and listening to my colleague’s passions in an effort to figure out
what the foundational inspirational is for my own engagement in
environmentally-oriented social change. I believe this will be supplemented by
my work for Milkweed, which will involve identifying stories from around the world
that have bearing on our relationship to the more-than-human world. By the end
of the summer, I hope I can make concrete suggestions of transformative art to
publish and thereby encourage a widespread avenue of reemphasis on the
importance of sustainability.
Communications and Special
Projects, Transit for Livable Communities
Majors: Economics &
French
Profile: Cyclist,
urbanist, economist, and Francophile pursuing urban and transportation
planning. Interested in issues of social
justice, environmentalism, community organizing, and economic development, both
domestically and internationally. Have
worked in non-profit communication and event planning.
Summer Goals: I hope to help Transit for Livable Communities
market their projects to generate support and excitement around active
transportation in the Twin Cities while also learning about active
transportation myself. I want to use my internship with Transit for Livable
Communities as a way to explore both transportation planning and non-profit
management as vocational objectives while expanding my professional network.
Steph Van
Dyke ’14
Summer
Associate Intern, Ashoka
Majors:
Economics & Psychology
Concentration: Management Studies
Profile: Steph’s interest in and passion for creating social
change stems from her academic work, past internships in the nonprofit sector,
and study abroad experiences in Denmark and Ecuador. Her career aspirations are to either go into
clinical and counseling psychology or nonprofit management.
Summer Goals: Steph will use her organizational and planning
skills to help with Ashoka’s events and strengthen connections with community
members. She hopes to utilize her
internship opportunity to gain a broader network of professional mentors and to
further discern her vocation.
NORTHFIELD HOUSE
Sam Adams ’15
Summer Programming Intern,
So How Are The Children (SHAC)
Major: Sociology/Anthropology Concentrations: Women’s & Gender
Studies/Racial & Ethnic Studies
Profile: I am passionate about empowering and helping
people. Acknowledging the privilege that white, heterosexual, male, and
upper-class people like me hold in American society, I want to work for racial,
gender, sexual, and class equality.
Summer Goals: I hope to contribute to SHAC’s summer programming
in Faribault through program design and planning, interaction with youth, and
other long-term projects. I hope to gain a better understanding of the lives of
disadvantaged youth in Faribault and to learn about the inner workings of a
nonprofit.
Client Services Intern,
Community Action Center
Major: Spanish Concentration: Women’s and Gender Studies
Profile: Rising senior studying Spanish and women’s/gender
studies, looking forward to a life of promoting the hope and dignity of the
individual. Experiences abroad have fueled desire to utilize language and intercultural
skills to work with immigrant populations in the U.S.
Summer Goals: I am excited to contribute to the CAC’s mission in
any way I can, especially by using my language skills to connect with clients.
I hope to gain a better understanding of poverty on both an individual and
systemic level, explore the type of work that best fits me, and gain more
insight into the field of human services.
College Ambitions Intern, C.A.S.T. (College Ambitions Start Today)
Major: Social Work
Profile: I am interested in the field of community
development and empowerment, through advocacy, education, and program
implementation. My academic studies and internship experiences provided me with
community system theories and leadership skills that have furthered my passion
for this work.
Summer Goal: One goal that I hope to contribute to the
organization is to help provide
collaboration among other organizations to help provide effective programming.
One goal that I hope to gain from this experience is to
understand how individuals and communities can be effectively empowered to
address obstacles and issues they face.
Social Media Policy
Developer, Rice County Government
Major: Political Science Concentrations: Latin American Studies &
Statistics
Profile: Student seeking to engage his local, state,
national, and international community through social change and political
activism. Brings experience from various levels of government and possesses
skills in written and oral communication.
Summer Goals: Through Leaders for Social Change, I seek to more
wholly become a participant of social change in my community. With Rice County,
I hope to successfully develop and pass policy through the county commission so
that people in Rice County are able to have better direct communication with
their local government. Personally, I desire to acquire and develop skills that
I will employ in my future career of public service.
Dea Jessica ’15
Independent Researcher,
Northfield Enterprise Center
Major: Economics Concentration: Management Studies
Profile: A college student who is passionately trying to
blend her academic and vocational interests. In order to do so, she has been
participating in numerous volunteer and organizational works in South East
Asia, North, and Central America. At the moment, she is looking to improve her
qualitative and quantitative analysis skills.
Summer Goals: Bring a positive work-ethos to the organization and
contribute to the daily tasks on-site. Establish
a micro-economics model that identify challenges, benefits, and impacts of
non-profit businesses and organizations in Northfield and as a model response,
find sustainable solutions to the problems.
Clinical Intern,
HealthFinders Collaborative
Major: Music Concentration: Biomedical Studies
Profile: Pre-med student exploring the connection between
traditional healthcare accessibility and community empowerment. Aspires to
investigate and engage others in wellness models that are realistic,
energizing, and sustainable, especially those that are holistic and
self-designed.
Summer Goals: I hope to increase connections between the various
programming offered at HealthFinders (including clinic hours, Pura Vida, MESA,
and the Diabetes Program) in collaboration with my fellow summer interns. I
look forward to engaging directly with clients as a Nurse Assistant in the
clinic, as well as develop materials and programming to empower them to be a
positive determinant in their own health.
Matthew Terhaar ’14
Site Assistant, Targeted
Services: Summer PLUS and Northfield Arts Guild
Major: B.A. Music Concentration: TEFL Education
Profile: I am passionate about the arts, education, and
social change, and aspire to find an effective combination of all three. After
my experience teaching English in Costa Rica, I hope to one day live abroad and
pursue a career in education.
Summer Goals: I hope to serve as a positive social role model, to
make genuine connections with kids and to use past experiences with the arts to
develop engaging curricula. I also hope
to gain a sense of vocational independence, to strengthen my communication and
leadership skills and to gain valuable experience working in a classroom.
CURI Researcher, Early
Childhood Education in Northfield
Majors: Psychology &
Women’s Studies
Profile: I am a psychology student who pursues research
interests in education and health. I hope to become either a professor at a
research institution or a researcher for a government sponsored organization or
a community.
Summer Goals: For the CURI Program, I hope to build connections
between St. Olaf and Northfield’s early childhood education programs for future
collaboration and research. Personally, I hope gain experience as a community
researcher and determine if this is a career that I would like to pursue.
CURI Researcher:
Sustainability at St. Olaf College
Majors: Economics & Environmental
Studies Concentration:
Statistics
Profile: I’m a student interested in the intersection of
social change, sustainability, and democracy. I’d like to become an organizing
force behind social change, both in the managerial and research roles. Some of
my strengths include organization, critical thinking, and my involvement in the
St. Olaf sustainability community.
Summer Goals: My primary goal for LSC is to reflect on my
leadership and research experience with other students interested in social
change to better prepare myself for a future in social change, sustainability,
and civic engagement. I hope to contribute concrete plans for sustainability at
St. Olaf, and how to carry out plans to become more sustainability. I
personally hope to experience intense personal and vocational discernment
through the process of research and collaboration.
Emily Stets ’15
CURI Researcher:
Sustainability at St. Olaf College
Major: CIS (in progress):
The Cultural Environment and Mental Health
Profile: Student at St. Olaf College studying how the
cultural environment contributes to the prevalence of mental health illnesses
in youth populations. Experiences in theater, music, and creative writing
inspired a desire to create environments that promote holistic health and
fulfillment.
Summer Goals: As a student researcher, I hope to inspire an
organic desire in students to become ecological citizens of the world. In
making sustainable change accessible and possible in college students’ lives, I
hope to gain experience in distilling abstract goals and ideas into communicable,
comprehensive terms.
ASIAN RURAL INSTITUTE
(Nasushiobara, Japan)
Hawera Butta ’15
Asian Rural Institute
Major: Biology Concentration: Biomolecular Studies
Profile: I am a student at St. Olaf College. I hope to
change the world event if it is a little by either helping developing countries
or working in the health care field.
Summer Goals: I hope to help ARI better educate the community
leaders learn about sustainable agriculture and help their communities upon
returning to their respective countries. Personally, I hope to gain a lot from
the communal style of living and learning about the various cultures at ARI and
sustainable agriculture.
Lisa Misch ’15
Asian Rural Institute
Majors: Environmental Studies and Biology
Profile: My background in the outdoors and continued passion for sustainable living has helped me develop into an environmentalist. I would like to use this passion to help other people develop their own sustainable lifestyles.
Summer Goals: Organization Goal: I hope to be a dependable and helpful volunteer that adds to the cohesiveness of the community.
Personal Goal: I would like to explore new ways of living sustainably.
Asian Rural Institute
Major:
Sociology/Anthropology Concentrations:
Asian Studies & Biomedical Studies
Profile: I’m an active learner and a world citizen. I hope to continue traveling and learning
throughout my life. My long term goal is
to study Public Health, specifically global health, and to work on promoting
social justice through health equity.
Summer Goals: This summer I hope to gain knowledge and
understanding of the relationship between sustainable farming and the health
and development of rural communities. At
the same time I hope assist in the good work that ARI has been doing for the
past forty years.
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