Category: <span>Internships</span>

¡Adiós, Oaxaca!

Queridos amigos, I write to you once again from Oaxaca, Mexico as an Institute of Nature and Society of Oaxaca (INSO) intern.  It’s hard for me to believe, but my three months here are already coming to close.  I’m now in the midst of tying up loose ends, buying gifts, …

Sorting garbage one stream at a time

Hello classmates! I hope that everyone has been having a great experience with their internship thus far.  I have been certainly enjoying mine! I am interning with Global Green’s Coalition for Resource Recovery.  Global Green is a branch of Green Cross International, which was founded by Mikael Gorbachov to address …

An Alaskan Summer

This summer I was the Arctic/Renewable Energy Intern at the Northern Alaska Environmental Center located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Northern Alaska Environmental Center is a grassroots environmental organization that “promotes conservation of the environment and sustainable resource stewardship in Interior and Arctic Alaska through education and advocacy.”  I’ve spent my …

Los Maestros de Muestras

Although I have been in Oaxaca for almost two months, and coming into work at the office of the Institute for Nature and Society of Oaxaca (INSO) for over 7 weeks, it does not feel as though my internship really started until about 4 weeks ago. Things in Mexico move …

The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries

Hi Everyone! Hope you’re all enjoying your summers interning! I started my internship just under a month ago so it is time to start blogging! I am working at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries (“the Beacon Institute” or “the Institute”) as an Independent Policy Intern.  What that means …

Blending Carbon Reductions and Energy Efficient Housing

Hello from the glorious state of Maine in the summer! I am currently interning at Maine State Housing Authority (MaineHousing) and serving as the Carbon Quantification Project Manager. MaineHousing is an independent state agency that bridges public and private housing finance, combining them to benefit Maine’s low and moderate-income people. …

Land of the Midnight Sun

This summer I’m spending under the midnight sun working at the Northern Alaska Environmental Center (www.northern.org). The center is proudly the “Northernmost conservation organization” in the United States, and works tirelessly to protect the wildlands of Interior Alaska and the Alaskan Arctic. Located in Fairbanks, AK, the Northern Center, as …

The German Marshall Fund

Hi all, My internship is with the German Marshall Fund of the United States within their Urban and Regional Policy Program.  Despite only being an intern, at the GMF I have the privilege of having a unique and interesting position. GMF is a large, international organization (with offices all across …

Navigating Haiti and the International Development World

Hello BCEPers! I am a little over a month into my internship now, and I am finally settled in Haiti. I am living in Petite-Goave, a city of about 160,000 people, 2 hours west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. I am living with a host family in a mountainous area outside …