Archive Internships

Mikaila Donaldson (class ’21)

• Fall 2020 to Spring 2021, Student Teacher for Baltimore County Public Schools – Student-teacher at Catonsville High School for the 2020-2021 academic year. Part-time work during the fall semester, with full-time duties beginning in January until the end of the school year. Designed and executed lesson plans, assessed performance goals, and gained invaluable work experience in the education field.
• Fall 2020,History Education Intern at Arlington National Cemetery – Helped to design lesson plans, walking tours, interactive activities, and further readings for the Arlington National Cemetery’s premier education program. Assisted with preliminary research and write-ups while being mindful of a variety of audiences, academic-levels, and interests.
• Spring 2019, Co-Teacher for Baltimore City Public Schools – Worked in an after-school program at Violetville Elementary/Middle School. Collaborated with other educators to create social studies lessons to engage different ages and interests. Worked diligently to support students and creative thinking.
• Fall 2018,Teaching Assistant for Baltimore County Public Schools – Responsible for assisting mentor teacher in a separated classroom at Maiden Choice School for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Learned to tailor content to reach all students, as well as became more familiar with MOVE, ABA, TEACCH, and IDEA programs.
• Spring 2018,Teaching Assistant for Baltimore County Public Schools – Assisted a class of twenty sixth-graders at Arbutus Middle School in an English classroom. Helped individually and in groups as well as levitated teacher’s work by helping prepare, organize, and grade. Additionally observed and documented student behavior to keep track of and better help students.

Sophie Shippe (class ’21)

• Fall 2020- Winter 2021, Social Media Marketing Intern with MoreWithUs- Everyday Jobs.
  Sophie ran the LinkedIn account for the company and created infographics and other content to post. She also wrote blogs to improve the company’s SEO. Finally, she worked on a video project in which she interviewed people about their jobs and edited videos of the footage.

• Winter 2021- Spring 2021, Writer at The Borgen Project. Wrote weekly articles for their magazine, BORGEN Magazine, threw fundraisers for the organization, and contacted congressional representatives weekly to support poverty-reduction legislation.

Anjali DasSarma (class ’21)

• Spring 2020, Editor-in-Chief – The Retriever Weekly. During the pandemic, Anjali adapted and organized the full transition from biweekly print to a primarily online newspaper, kicking off the social media content.
• Summer 2020, Maryland-Delaware-DC Reese Cleghorn Editorial Intern at The Baltimore Sun, writing one to two editorials, including political columns and media criticism, per week for the Opinions page of the largest state paper.
• Spring 2020, Public Relations Intern, The United Holocaust Memorial Museum, helped pitch and place stories about Museum public programs, events, artifact donations, survivor research news, etc.
• Fall 2019, Study Abroad Ambassador from London’s King’s College
• Spring 2019 to Spring 2020, Opinions Editor – The Retriever Weekly
• Summer 2019, Marketing Intern – Atwater’s Traditional Food. Anjali increased her experience with social media and carried out digital marketing campaigns using Instagram, Facebook, and email and established brand presence on Pinterest. Using SEO practices, she sought to boost website speed and Google rankings.
• Fall 2018, Communications Intern at the Newseum, Washington, DC.
• Summer to Fall 2018, Intern at UMBC Magazine.
• Spring 2018, Digital Marketing Intern for UMBC’s Division of Professional Studies.

Lily LaFemina (class ’21)

• Summer 2018 & 2019, Winter 2019 & 2020, Communications Intern at the National Cancer Institute working in the Emergency Management and Physical Security Branch. Created social media posts, outreach posters & pamphlets, designed graphics, and worked on long-form documents.
• Fall 2020, University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC), Study Abroad Ambassador: Created social media content to advertise USAC’s study abroad opportunities for students at UMBC.

Tess McRae (class ’21)

• Fall 2018 to present, UMBC Center for Democracy and Civic Life. Tess began her internship as the Civic Design Intern and became the Senior Intern for Civic Design & Campus Engagement in Fall 2020. She develops collaborative tools and programming to improve the civic culture of campus, creates graphics and visual material to promote and communicate Center mission and ideas, and assists with facilitation and planning of events.

Elizabeth Eakes (class ’21)

• Spring 2018, Fall 2020: Baltimore County Public Schools, Part time intern in first and fourth grade classrooms
• Spring 2021, Baltimore County Public Schools, Full time intern in a first grade classroom

Sage Burch (class ’19)

• Summer 2016, Communications Intern, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
  Sage wrote press releases, tweeted, did general copywriting, and copywriting for the web.
• Summer 2016, Center for the Study of Democracy
  Page wrote a 5~6 page annual review to showcase what the Center has done for the community
• Summer 2015, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
  Copywriter

Helena Wachhaus (class ’19)

• Fall 2016, Section Intern for Bartleby
  Nani will help with the promotion of the literary arts journal and be tasked with reading and evaluating the pieces as they are submitted to Bartleby. Each written piece will be given a short report which will help the senior editors decide which pieces to include in the journal.

Kelley Bennett (class ’18)

• Summer 2017, Media intern for V-LINC, a non-profit in Baltimore that provides special solutions for people with special needs.
• Summer 2016 – Present, Kelley is serving as the social media presence for the publication of Dr. Mitch Yockelson’s fourth book, Forty-Seven Days.

Emma Barnes (class ’18)

• Summer 2016, Technical Writers, Inc, — Emma was full-time intern. This is a local company that does contracting for science/technology corporations, performing services such as documenting chemical analysis equipment, producing standard operating procedures and manuals, and software testing.
• Fall 2014 – Present, Undergraduate Researcher in Dr. Jeff Leips’ Laboratory, UMBC
  At the lab, Emma worked independently on developing an identification guide for Drosophila fruitflies, She also utilized detail-oriented skills to clearly and concisely describe different species.
• Fall 2014 – Present, Writer at the The Helix, UMBC
  Emma interviewed students of scientific fields about their research. She then organized the information from interviews into easily accessible blog entries. Beginning in Spring 2015, she is also managing the Helix as well.

Anthony Alberti (class ’18)

• Fall 2016, Bartleby, Staff intern for UMBC’s creative arts journal.
• Fall 2015, Part of a team researching the effect that video games have on community Anthony will be in charge of collecting data on who is playing the games and seeing if the games are bringing people together that otherwise wouldn’t have been or instead inhibiting the ways that they are socializing. Anthony has also been tasked with creating some of the narratives for the games.

Kelly Wan (class ’18)

• Summer 2015, STARTALK Chinese Summer Program
  Kelly worked as a paraeducator for the STARTALK Chinese Summer Program, where she taught children Chinese language.

Julian Tash (class ’18)

• Fall 2015, Curatorial Internship Related to Asian Art, Walters Art Museum
  The majority of work focused on object research. Julian investigated the histories of pieces in the WAM’s collection and contextualized them in the broader history of Asian art. He worked on subjects ranging from Chinese silk paintings to Japanese netsuke. Julian also created one major research project on Buddhist statuary which is currently in the process of becoming an exhibition at the WAM. While the group of pieces and their accompanying writing will be edited, he wrote all of the initial expository texts for this project and also organized an accompanying group of contemporary Japanese ceramics for this exhibition. Other responsibilities included updating label descriptions and recording object numbers for curators.

Flora Kirk (class ’18)

• Summer 2017, Great North Museum, Newcastle, UK
  Intern under the curator of the Roman department at Newcastle University’s museum. Emphasis will be given to exhibition and display-related projects, strengthening Flora’s experience in making historical materials understandable and interesting to the public.
• Summer 2015, Roman Baths, Bath, UK
  Flora catalogued and sorted coins from the recently discovered Beau Street Hoard, one of the largest Roman coin hoards discovered in Britain. She also designed and put together a display on coin imagery and meaning, using specific examples from the hoard.

Kate Gitter (class ’18)

• Spring 2016
  Kate starts her third semester as a research assistant in Dr. Borrero’s Human Operant lab, assisting graduate psychology students at UMBC with their research on Applied Behavior Analysis. Her latest project was field research determining whether or not preschool children suffer from loss aversion and how that relates to current understanding of token economies. She hopes her work in the ABA field will provide insight into the ways people learn, to prepare her for a teaching career.

Morgan Zepp (class ’18)

• Summer 2017, Parks and People Foundation
  Environmental Education Intern, to educate students from Baltimore enrolled in environmental-based summer program.
• Summer 2016, Loch Raven Review Intern
  Morgan will assist the editors of this local literary magazine with publishing content on their website and doing copy editing
• Fall 2015, Writing Center Internship
  Morgan spent three hours a week being trained and mentored to become a writing tutor in UMBC’s Writing Center. Topics of training include how to work with ESL students, how to gauge the needs of students in order to be more directive or less directive, how to tutor in subjects with content knowledge we do not possess while still being helpful during the session, and much more. Internship ended in being hired to work in the Writing Center for Spring ‘16