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Amsden did a summer internship with a Burlington-based non-profit, the Milk with Dignity Standards Council (MDSC). The Milk with Dignity Program partners with dairy farms across Vermont and New York to monitor and enforce ethical labor standards for their workers. Amsden’s work primarily involved reviewing field notes and recording them in a central research database. She was also tasked with organizing a fundraiser to raise awareness for the Migrant Justice organization. Within her first week as an intern, Amsden had already connected fields of study such as Food Systems, Immigration, and Human Rights. "This experience will help shape my studies as a Global Studies student because I am being immersed in a global work environment," she said at the time."

For Wolfe, her internship with the Burlington-based non-profit, New Farms for New Americans, was invaluable. Her work included everyday farm maintenance, ranging from assisting farmers to technical tasks in the garden. “I helped build and maintain various resources used on the farm, including signs, visuals, and a handbook that accompanies our weekly gardening class, which I assisted in leading.” Inspired by these new skills and knowledge, Wolfe went on to create "a zine about medicinal plants that can be grown in Vermont, which farmers will hopefully be able to use.

Donnelly combined her global studies major with a critical race and ethnic studies minor through an internship with the Association of Africans Living in Vermont (AALV). This organization, a non-profit based in downtown Burlington, helps new Americans achieve personal and professional independence in their new communities. Lily focused on implementing more mental health initiatives and services for refugee students in the greater Burlington/Winooski area. Her internship involved conducting interviews, producing literature reviews, and inputting these findings into a central database. "I am looking forward to all of this work, connecting with the families, and learning more about the policies surrounding these implementations!"

Carasi-Schwartz worked as an intern for New Farms for New Americans (NFNA) and as the communications intern for GRS. “As a global studies major with minors in food systems, agroecology, and community and international development, I spent much of my college career trying to bridge the gap between all my academic interests. Additionally, I graduated a year early, so the idea of networking became more important to me in my last year at ����̽̽.” NFNA is a branch of the Association of Africans Living in Vermont, and “through this non-profit, I was able to implement agricultural practices I had learned in my STEM courses, while also learning more about Nepali culture and growing practices I had no prior experience with or understanding of.” Working to connect her global studies major with her community development minor, Carasi-Schwartz began interning for GRS as their communications Intern. “This internship allowed me to explore networking beyond the classroom. Most of my work consisted of organizing global studies events during the school year, conducting interviews with alums, and speaking to prospective students on Admitted Student Day visits. These internships both solidified interests I knew I had while also opening my eyes to completely new passions of mine.”

Vermont native Hayley Barriere ’19 didn’t have to travel far to get a working knowledge of issues surrounding immigrant and refugee resettlement. A global studies major with a minor in sociology, Barriere completed an internship at the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants/the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program in Colchester, VT. In the classroom, Barriere analyzed human migration patterns and the factors behind them. Through her internship, she got essential hands-on experience in helping newly arrived refugees and immigrants resettle in the United States. “The most important thing I realized from my internship was that wherever I end up in the future, I want to spend my life doing important and meaningful work that makes a positive impact on the world.”

Jocelyn Young-Hyman shared her experiences after studying abroad in India: “I completed four amazing months in India, first studying abroad in Jaipur and then interning with the non-governmental organization, Jatan Sansthan, in Udaipur. During my classroom phase, I took courses in Hindi. For the second phase of my program, I completed an internship with Jatan Sansthan [a grassroots not-for-profit organization working with the rural population of the state of Rajasthan]. The majority of my time was spent meeting with women and youth groups who were being educated about safe sex, the sex ratio issue in India, and women’s rights."