This summer, our students will be out doing amazing things, whether locally in the Monterey Bay area or around the world. Check out what just a few of our students will be up to:

Hafsa Abdulwahid has an internship with the Woman's Committee for Social Development in  Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The organization focuses on providing income-generating skills' training to women. 

Molly Ammons has an internship with the national advisor to the Mongolian government, working on the country’s Millennium Development Goals project.

Danielle Ancin will be interning with United Nations Habitat Regional Headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Hilary Anderson will be interning at the Jaffa Institute in South Tel Aviv, Israel. She will focus on expanding the fundraising base of the organization as well as volunteering with the other programs the institute offers, including school feeding, immigration integration and crisis shelters.

Natalie Arkania has an internship with the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP) in New York, NY.

Courtney Avery will be interning with the United Nations Development Programme’ (UNDP) Multi-Country Office in Apia, Samoa on the GEF's Small Grants Programme.

Abigail (Bree) Bacon will be interning with the Women's Fund of Monterey County.

Danielle Barbeau has an internship with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Washington, DC

Jennifer Barringer will be interning in the Office of Overseas and Off-Campus Study at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. 

Linsey Bosnich will be interning for the International Rescue Committee at their Government Relations/Advocacy Office in Washington, DC., where she will be focusing on refugee resettlement issues.

Ashley Camhi has an internship with the United Nations Secretariat of Forestry in New York, NY.

Courtney Campbell will be interning with Amnesty International’s Arms Transfers and Child Soldiers division in Washington D.C.

Christine Chau has an internship with Southern California Edison College Relations Program; Environment, Health & Safety Division, Planning & Strategies Group. She will also be attending the Global Majority conflict resolution course at the University for Peace in Costa Rica.

Archana Chhetri will be interning with Triodos Bank in Zeist, Netherlands.

Jaclyn Corona has an internship with the Western Hemisphere Affairs Bureau of the State Department. Jackie will be working in the political section of the American Embassy in Nicaragua, and will be focusing on diplomacy and human rights issues.

Rocco Costa will be interning with the US State Department Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, Austria.

Collin Daugherty will spend the summer with The Nature Conservancy in the U.S. Virgin Islands, developing a monitoring program for marine protected areas across the Carribean.

Ravi Dutta will be joining MIIS colleagues in forming a consulting agency. He will also be continuing his role as a graduate assistant in the GSIPS Career Development Office. 

Danielle Fishman received a Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Urdu in Lucknow, India. 

Allison Ford has a two-month internship with Friends of the Earth Middle East, in Amman Jordan. Upon her return, she will continue her local work with the Otter Project and the Monterey Coastkeeper. 

Adam Fox has an internship with INCORE (International Conflict Research) in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Aven Frey has an internship with 350.org, a global climate change advocacy group. 

Casey Gayman received a State Department/CAORC Critical Language Scholarship to study advanced Russian in Tomsk, Russia this summer. He will also be continuing his role as a content specialist for the Homeland Security Digital Library at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.

Michelle Glasser will be interning at the PRASHANT Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace in Gujarat, India, and will then travel to Amman, Jordan for a course in conflict resolution hosted by Global Majority and the United Nations University. She will finish her summer in Berlin, Germany, where she will be attending a seminar at the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (ICD).

Katherine Grossman will be working with the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shinbun in Tokyo, Japan, as an intern and independent researcher.

Sabrina Hervey will be continuing her independent field research project in Cameroon, studying the role of village development committees in the sustainable development and decentralization of the country. Read more about Sabrina Hervey's Cameroon Development Project.

Lindsay Kreslake will be a consultant to the Secure World Foundation and a contributing member of the Space Futures Working Group, a policy institute in the field of space governance and management, in collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center and the Naval Postgraduate School.

Joyce Laker will be conducting mediation of Small Court claims at the Monterey Supreme Court in Monterey, CA.  Joyce will also be attending the French Intensive program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Summer Intensive Language Program.

Yi Chiao Lee will be interning with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan.

Jasper Liao will be doing nonproliferation/export control research at LTI, an American trade consulting firm that is based in Beijing, China.

Amity Malack has an internship with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Tokyo, Japan.

Corey McAveeney will be interning at the International Trade Centre, Market Analysis Research Division in Geneva, Switzerland.

Kelly Moore will be interning with Fazenda Iracambi in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where she will be working on a sustainable development project.

Melissa Nguyen has an internship at the US Department of Commerce in the International Trade Administration, working with the Office of Technology and E-Commerce.

David Peranteau has a Nuclear Safeguards Internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA.

Sarah Percoulis will be the Grant Programs Intern for the Monterey Peninsula Foundation in Monterey, CA.

Max Perelman will be working for the City of Pacific Grove, assisting the mayor with sustainability strategies.  He will also work with Enviro-International, assisting with green building projects.  In addition, Max will work with the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, based in Shanghai and Silicon Valley.  Finally, Max will continue his work with Green Dragon Media Group, presenting at conferences in the Bay Area and China.

Antonio Quintero received the Critical Language Scholarship to learn intensive Arabic this summer in Cairo, Egypt.

Rajeev Rao will be doing an internship with the Economic Research Institute in Khabarovsk, Russia and conducting a research on Sino-Russian energy cooperation.

Leonor Robles will be working for the Instituto Empresarial para la Mujer in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She will be helping to identify the areas of need for women entrepreneurs in PR through interviews and research as well as design programs and identify resources to address those needs.

Elizabeth Rogers will be interning with a non-profit called Occupational Knowledge International in San Francisco. She will serve as a research assistant working on their environmental health initiative, particularly on lead battery research in India.

Damon Shulenberger will be doing an internship with the Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia in Niigata, Japan and conducting a research on greenhouse gas intensity reduction technologies and their potential role in Japanese trade.

Emily Sloane will be interning with Tiller's International in rural Michigan. Tiller's operates a demonstration farm and training center for appropriate technologies designed for farmers in developing countries.

Daniel Stolkowski will be interning with the White House Office of Management and Budget in Washington, DC.

Adrienne Stork has an internship with the Environmental Defense Fund Latin America in their Caribbean Oceans Program in Washington, DC.

Jeff Swartz will be interning for the U.S. Department of State in Guangzhou, China conducting field research, monitoring and data collection on south China's environmental and energy crisis. He wil be conducting a survey for local officials on environmental regulation and working with the economic section of the Consulate in Guangzhou to provide an analytical framework on how environmental degradation is impacting the economy in the Pearl River Delta.

Marianne Taflinger will be working on a project to address poverty in underprepared college students. The company is called ahaprocess.com and is based in Denver, CO.

Alina Trach will be interning with the Economic Research Institute in Khabarovsk, Russia, which is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.The objective of this internship will be to conduct economic research.

Monica Van Dalen accepted an appointment to OakRidge National Labs in Tennessee in their international safeguards nonproliferation division.

Paula Villegas Morera will be assisting with the planning of a workshop entitled, "Promoting Peace Through Dialogue" organized by Global Majority, Inc., in Costa Rica.

Zahra Waliji will be interning full time for charity water in NY, and part time running a pilot project for Orphans International, a project in Tanzania.

Michael Wall has an internship with the US Trade Representative's African Affairs Office in Washington, DC.

Brett Walker will be working for the Arab Institute for Security Studies in Amman, Jordan. He will be working on the Arab Institute's project related to nuclear nonproliferation in the Middle East.

Brett Wertz will be working in Santa Monica this summer with a non-profit foundation called Environment Now, focusing on their freshwater program.

Helen Young will be interning for the U.S. Commercial Service in Madrid Spain. She will be working with them on business negotiations and on garnering greater market access for American products.

For additional information about career development at the Graduate School of International Policy Studies, please contact:

Jennifer Hambleton, Career Development Manager, GSIPS Career Services
jennifer.hambleton@miis.edu
831-647-6676