- Internships are 10 weeks.
- The stipend for 2008 is $3000.
2008 Intern Profiles
Sweta Adhikari
Mt. Holyoke College
Hometown:
Kathmandu, Nepal
Major / Concentration:
Public Health
Sweta finds herself concerned about inadequate health resources in the developing countries, specially women's health issues. She has passion for a lot of things, some being mathematics, fiction, shoes and cooking!
Christian Baer
Hampshire College
Hometown:
Houston, TX/ Fayetteville, AR
Major / Concentration:
Feminist Philosophy and Video
Christian excitedly anticipates her third year at Hampshire College, where she has friends who love her and share her interests in ghosts, kittens, and learning. Hailing from Arkansas, "X-Gon-Give-It-To-Ya" enjoys the musical stylings of Britney Spears, wearing pajama pants, and making videos that deconstruct queer assimilationist politics with chalk and blood.
Gretchen Bennett Wilson
Greenfield Community College/Smith College
Hometown:
Bellows Falls, VT
Major / Concentration:
Public Policy
Gretchen Bennett Wilson is a powerful, driven woman of action. She has been enrolled at GCC but was recently accepted at Smith College where she will become an Ada Comstock Scholar this fall. Gretchen was introduced to Hampshire's RRASC internship program and knew that this was the opportunity she had been waiting for. This internship is the beginning of her career working to fight social injustices within our society. This summer's experience will provide Gretchen with the foundation necessary to begin living her passion and doing the work that she was meant to do.
Vanessa Calderon
Smith College
Hometown:
S. Hadley, MA
Major / Concentration:
Sociology and Spanish
Vanessa considers herself to be an activist and would one day like to affect change directly through policy. She envisions a world where compassion and humility are valued over competition and greed. We have one Earth and one life so she'd like to do as much good as she can for the lives around her.
Christie Capone
Smith College
Hometown:
Hudson, NH
Major / Concentration:
Women's History and German Studies
Christie loves singing, dancing, her family, and her friends. Next year, she will be studying at the University of Hamburg in Germany and hopes to travel throughout Europe. In the future, she hopes to work for women's rights, potentially as a lawyer or through policy work. Either that, or she will attend college for the rest of her life.
Akira Cespedes Perez
Hampshire College
Hometown:
Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico
Major / Concentration:
Traditions, Perceptions, and Infectious Disease: How Culture and Science Influence our Health
Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Puerto Rico, Akira is an assertive, bright, ambitious young woman who enjoys the beach, traveling, and discovering the world. Currently she spends most of her time working on her Div II: “Traditions, Perceptions, and Infectious Disease: How Culture and Science Influence our Health,” as well as indulging in her passion for good food, good music, and good people. She hopes to one day pursue an MD/JD. In the meantime, she takes pleasure in living life one sunrise at a time.
Zoe Crowley
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Hometown:
Conway, MA
Major / Concentration:
Sociology: Social Work
Zoe is a junior Umass student studying sociology. She is wicked excited to be involved in the Reproductive Justice Movement for the first time and to be moving away from home!
Bethany Eby
Smith College
Hometown:
LeRoy, New York
Major / Concentration:
History and Pre-Law
Beth is an aspiring law school student and holds a strong passion for women's rights and social justice. She hopes to use this summer internship to further her knowledge on women's rights, and she hopes to become a more fervent activist.
Patricia Egessa
Mt. Holyoke College
Hometown:
Nairobi, Kenya
Major / Concentration:
Economics and International Relations
Patricia is from the city under the sun: Nairobi Kenya. Passionate, dedicated and interested in advocating for change, she is really looking forward to the summer. It has a lot to offer and she is ready to learn.
Samaiya Ewing
Smith College
Hometown:
Chicago, IL
Major / Concentration:
Philosophy
Samaiya will read just about anything and especially enjoys writing and talking about the things she's read. She's dedicated to introducing herself and the people around her to new ideas and perspectives. She loves to travel and recently spent a month in India. She's excited about graduating and making the transition to law school.
Maria Francis Walsh
Hampshire College
Hometown:
British Virgin Islands
Major / Concentration:
The Role of the Arts: Putting Expression into Context/Using Arts to Explore Social Justice
Maria is in her fourth year at Hampshire and studies the arts as a vehicle to look at social issues. She loves boogieboarding, dancing, building bridges and is convinced that tomatoes make anything taste better. Born and raised in the Virgin Islands, some of her goals are to be fluent in Spanish and continue traveling, and she's stoked to be working with NYCLU this summer.
Anuradha Hashemi
Mt. Holyoke College
Hometown:
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Major / Concentration:
Anthropology
Anuradha's life has been equally divided between Bangladesh and America. Her experiences and education in these two places define how she views social justice and her place in the struggle for a more equal world. She loves spicy food, meaningful conversations, and reading for pleasure. She also loves music and is a DJ for WMHC 91.5 FM.
Paige Hendry-Bodnar
Smith College
Hometown:
New Jersey
Major / Concentration:
American Studies: Race and Ethnicity
Paige likes yard sales, pumpkin pie, lasagna, smashing the patriarchy and Saguaro National Park. In the future she hopes to grow heirloom tomatoes and be even more idealistic.
Courtney Hooks
Hampshire College
Hometown:
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina
Major / Concentration:
Human Rights and Literary Journalism
Courtney will be working for HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive) this summer. Although she will only be a second year this fall, she already has a title for her Division 3: Saving the World for Social Change. She is only half-joking about this. On a side note: she loves, loves, loves community theater.
Jacqueline Hsu
Hampshire College
Hometown:
Seattle, WA
Major / Concentration:
Public Health
Jacque loves wet plate photography, Neapolitan mastiffs, tutus, baking, thigh-high boots, high-tech equipment for the disabled, antique stores and French musicals. In the future, she's going to make a lot of money for her mum and fulfill her filial duty while creating social change. Yup.
Tsi-Yu Teresa Huang
Smith College
Hometown:
Carlisle, MA
Major / Concentration:
Study of Women and Gender
Teresa likes eating scones and drinking hot cider and watching fish swim around. She's totally psyched to be in San Francisco this summer just soaking in everything that's going on. Someday she'd like to either bike or drive a biodiesel car around the country, and is trying really hard to not make this rhyme-y.
Cyree Johnson
Hampshire College
Hometown:
New Jersey
Major / Concentration:
Philosophy, Black Studies, Queer Theory
Cyree Johnson is a Jersey femme down to hir bones. This is perhaps why ze enjoys the mall so much, or it could be the food court. Cyree loves the great state of New Jersey, Socrates, Queer Nationalism and Deviant Womanhood. At Hampshire, ze studies Queer Nationalism, Queers, Nationalism, and Black Studies.
Chloe Kanas
Mt. Holyoke College
Hometown:
Vestal, NY
Major / Concentration:
Gender Studies
As a budding feminist, Chloe is committed to: learning about our world, rethinking how we organize people as subjects and objects within it, and creating an accessible language of politics that will allow people to navigate difference and engage in meaningful projects for social justice. She is an active lover of singing, thinking, playing, napping, writing, and dialoguing. She is excited to begin work in the world of nonprofits and is so grateful for this incredible space at the CSC where she’ll be able to explore her interests.
Jessica Kincman
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Hometown:
Massachusetts
Major / Concentration:
Women's Studies: Sexuality and Leadership in Politics
One of Jess's goals is to be president of the United States. Her favorite things are her family, social justice, activism, feminism, black and white photography, traveling, and playing at the playground.
Dalia Klausner
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Hometown:
Boston, MA
Major / Concentration:
Women's Health and Sexual Health, Pre-Med
When Dalia has free time, she goes on bike rides, spends time in the sun, cooks delicious food and reads about brain chemistry. She's particularly very interested in how body, mind and social factors intersect with each other.
Keti Loncar
Smith College
Hometown:
Chicago, IL
Major / Concentration:
Sociology
Keti is a first generation Croatian-American and a city girl to the core. She loves to entertain, listen and dance to hip-hop. She has a ridiculous amount of love for her family and friends. She also has a bizarre/intimate relationship with coffee. Her interests lie in Public Administration and Administration in Education. She is committed to many social justice issues and looks forward to a fulfilling career that compliments her interests.
Elissa Lopes
Holyoke Community College
Hometown:
Ludlow, MA
Major / Concentration:
Human Services
Elissa is currently a full time student at HCC and has also attended Elms College and Bridgewater State College. Her guilty pleasures are gossip magazines, shoes, sushi, and spicy food. Someday she'd like to work in a field where she can interact one on one with people and bridge the gaps between classes, races and sexes. Also, she can't wait to get started on her internship this summer!
Julia Metzger-Traber
Hampshire College
Hometown:
Lexington, MA
Major / Concentration:
Constructions, Regulation, Obstructions of Black Maternity in the U.S.
Julia only began to understand the injustice of, not just the abuse within, prisons themselves as well as the larger criminal justice system about a year and a half ago after viewing a screening of a Critical Resistance documentary about the Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. But since then she has not been able to study anything about this country that is not affected by or implicated in the Prison Industrial Complex and our ideas of criminality. Race, reproductive empowerment, and deconstructing myths for fragmenting and dominating bodies is her focus.
Amanda Molina
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Hometown:
Salem, MA
Major / Concentration:
History, Women's Studies
Amanda is a Women’s Rights Activist and a proud Feminist. She works at UMass Financial Aid, participates in the Women’s Health Project, and is also Vice President of Finance for her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega. She believes in a woman’s right to choose. Period. She is most concerned with issues related to HIV/AIDS education and prevention, along with healthcare reform and access, particularly in Massachusetts. She hopes to go on to medical school and eventually open a clinic that will specialize in women’s healthcare. She can’t wait to get started this summer at Ibis!
Kayden Moore
Smith College
Hometown:
West Creek, NJ
Major / Concentration:
Study of Women and Gender: Queer Studies
Kayden enjoys cooking, reproductive justice, Rock Band, chocolate milk and MTV reality shows. When he grows up he'd like to work as a counselor to queer youth or a professional cupcake baker.
Unique Robinson
Hampshire College
Hometown:
Baltimore, MD
Major / Concentration:
Creative Writing and African American Studies
Unique is a wryter & excyter who tries to keep it hyper. What keeps her hype the most, though, is what she sees in the world she comes from and all that surrounds her. She knows that she cannot sit silent about so many of the issues that her own body represents (has silence ever benefited us before?), so for that reason, she has no choice but to act. But really, just cook up some shrimp scampi and we can chat.
Ellen Schubert
Hampshire College
Hometown:
New York, NY
Major / Concentration:
Youth, Community Development, Nonprofit Management
Ellen is a third-year student at Hampshire College and has been active in the reproductive justice movement since she was in high school. She's been a health educator, an intern at Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and is currently a Counselor Advocate at Hampshire. Her Division III thesis project will focus on issues in non-profit funding, and she looks forward to joining the non-profit world after she graduates.
Joshua Truitt
Hampshire College
Hometown:
Boston, MA
Major / Concentration:
Sequential Art and Philosophy, Printmaking
Joshua Truitt has studied sequential art (comics) and philosophy of race, among other topics, been the Student Conference Co-Coordinator for the Reproductive Justice conference, and is now working on a printmaking Division III. Joshua also enjoys cooking, especially bread baking.
Luisa Tsang
Smith College
Hometown:
San Francisco, CA
Major / Concentration:
Neuroscience and East Asian Studies
Luisa is a Neuroscience and Psychology major. She loves traveling and volunteering. Recently, she went to Israel to volunteer at an organization that performs free heart surgery for children from third world countries. Besides volunteering, she enjoys being the outdoors, either rafting, kayaking, hiking, or camping.
Caroline Waweru
Mt. Holyoke College
Hometown:
Nairobi, Kenya
Major / Concentration:
Economics and International Relations
Caroline's passions are rooted in Economic Development of Slums in Kenya and Empowerment of the Youth. In her free time, she loves traveling, listening to music, watching movies, catching up with friends, cooking and having a good time.
