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My internship was with an international architectural design firm in Prague, Czech Republic, where I was taught advanced skills in Photoshop and AutoCad that allowed me to help redesign the PRG International Airport and construct a future Olympic-sized stadium for the Czech Republic.

I worked for the renewable energy independent power producer (IPP) sPower. They are a new company that was founded in 2012, located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Essentially, sPower either through origination or acquisition, operates and sells wind/solar power to utility companies (like Southern California Edison).

When I began to consider consensus predictions of energy consumption by source around the world in the next 30 years, I realized how urgent it is for businesses and policy leaders to do everything they can to accelerate the shift to renewable energy sources now.

I had a wonderful experience as one of five interns within the Contemporary Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I was in charge of putting together and editing the Summer Newsletter for the Contemporary Art Department and the Visiting Committee, I helped prepare for the Museum’s annual audit, responded to information requests by scholars/members on certain objects and exhibits, compiled an archive for an artist’s exhibition once it ended at the museum, created new object files of recently-acquired works, and developed research reports as my long-term summer intern project for three different artists’ pieces that had been recently acquired.

I worked as a student intern in the Neuroimmunology/MS subdivision of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus.

My internship was with an education nonprofit organization called Bright Start located in Hout Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. As a Bright Start intern, I was primarily responsible for the management of the organization’s community workshop program, daily mentorship activities with the Bright Start students (boys and girls ages 4-13), and the management of various social media platforms.

This summer I worked as an intern at Legal Outreach’s Summer Law Institute, which prepares rising eighth graders from low-income households for the rigors of high school.

This summer, I was provided with the extraordinary opportunity to conduct biomedical research at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD. I worked under Professor Mukoyama’s Laboratory of Stem Cell and Vascular Biology in order to understand the neurovascular alignment in obese conditions along with embryonic pericyte development.

At Way.com, I worked as the Market Strategy Intern. My main responsibility was to strategize efforts to grow its customer base and visibility, particularly in its Dining department.

Working at InnerCity Weightlifting (ICW) provided me with something new every day. I was told I was going to work with Boston’s at-risk youth. I quickly realized that was a euphemism for gangsters and felons- many of whom make up a segment of the population that are most likely to shoot someone, or get shot.