Sample of Undergraduate Internship Accomplishments
 

Added Value
Developed curriculum and taught urban agricultural skills, community food access issues, and leadership to deter at-risk neighborhood youth from gang life.
 

American Civil Liberties Union
Assisted the Campaign Against Racial Profiling by researching and analyzing profiling reports, traffic stop data, and legal cases; following up with complainants; and creating a national Racial Profiling Alert e-newsletter.
 

Audubon Partnership for Economic Development
Surveyed and organized small businesses in industrial waterfront Inwood to help implement a community revitalization and urban design plan.
 

CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
Built relationships with Chinatown immigrant, poor, and working-class tenants through outreach, translating, and planning; and drafting letters to mobilize residents against institutional violence such as worker exploitation, concentrated urban poverty, policy brutality, and INS detention and deportation.
 

Center for Urban Pedagogy
Collected data on race, transportation, water system, and real estate vacancy rates in Detroit, and helped design maps that will be part of a curriculum to counteract shrinking cities and urban degeneration in the U.S. and abroad.
 

Covenant House
Re-opened an abandoned computer lab, and helped youth with resumes, cover letters, and typing skills in this organization that provides homeless, runaway, and at-risk mothers and children with shelter, food, and independent living skills.
 

The Enterprise Foundation
Learned about affordable housing development and helped compile construction loan narratives using data from the Foundation's MoneySite program, a pilot financial services program that provides financial planning to low income people.
 

Facing History School
Helped organize student/family orientation, and acted as coordinator for a week-long institute designed to facilitate the opening of a new school whose curriculum is infused with complex historical issues like the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and Japanese Internment.
 

Global Youth Action Network
Assisted in creating a network of social change youth activists and organizers in NYC by mapping the sector and organizing a local gathering aimed at influencing decision-making bodies like the UN.
 

Harlem Children's Zone/TRUCE Fitness and Nutrition Center
Worked as a team member with parents, residents, and teachers to create a safe learning environment for Central Harlem youth who use the Center's free services, including martial arts, fitness, and nutrition training. Designed curricula to promote personal empowerment and awareness of both healthy lifestyles and problem issues like STDs, smoking, substance abuse, and violence. Actively engaged with youth around the challenges facing the Harlem community.
 

LIFE Program, Columbia Teachers' College
Prepared for publication a nutrition curriculum to improve attitudes toward science and promote behavior changes and ecological health among youth.
 

Marga Incorporated
Assisted this for-profit public service consulting firm in completing research and writing a white paper on the philanthropic efforts of the financial service industry.
 

The Municipal Art Society of New York
Conducted research and attended Landmarks Commission meetings to help build a case for preserving a landmark cultural institution along the Bowery; and learned about the integral role historic preservation and planning initiatives play in New York City.
 

New York City Council Member Gail Brewer
Collected information on all current and recent development sites on the Upper West Side for this public office which has been instrumental in passing laws protecting domestic workers, monitoring land use, and promoting neighborhood preservation.
 

NYC Administration for Children's Services
Accompanied children on weekly visits to parents incarcerated at Riker's. Conducted foster care research for the Commissioner, attending hearings and conferences.
 

Prison Moratorium Project
Facilitated workshops and provided administrative support for this grass-roots campaign against at-risk youth incarceration.
 

Project Reach
Helped at-risk youth eschew gangs and become empowered through an anti-discrimination summer youth program.
 

Public Advocate for the City of New York
Answered complaints about people's problems with City government; investigated Adult Protective Services and researched cesarean section rates, domestic violence in the legal system, public pool water quality and safety standards, and Human Trafficking in NYC.
 

Randall's Island Sports Foundation
Conducted focus groups with Harlem-area parents and children to evaluate the Randall's Island Kids (RIK) field and sports programs.
 

UN Association of the USA
Helped create a nationwide network of national and international student advocacy groups to promote the work of the UN, and raise awareness of the role young people play in the world community.
 

WE ACT
Created a community-based planning and outreach program and interactive workshop to encourage West Harlem youth to organize around environmental justice issues.
 

Weill Medical College of Cornell
Piloted and conducted research and analyzed data to study potential links between socio-economic status and learning disabilities.
 

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