The 2010 National Office Summer Interns!
by Ankur Asthana on June 17, 2010
By Laura Edison
It’s summer: the sun is out, burgers are on the grill, and the National Office is getting a bit cramped. Five new people now have the privilege of choosing between a random assortment of deteriorating chairs and fighting with the spotty Internet connection: the summer interns! All from different chapters, the interns will be living, working, and exploring Chicago together until mid-August. Some fun events planned so far include attending a Cubs game, enjoying concerts at Ravinia and Millennium Park, and possibly a few road trips!
For the summer, the staff and interns will be divided into three teams: Development and Communications, Partnerships, and Chapter Programs. Each of the interns is on two of the three teams. Among many things, projects will include reformatting the website, consolidating media, creating new materials for globalhealthU and inside.globemed.org, producing a GlobeMed promotional video, and writing a history of GlobeMed. Additionally, each intern will work on an individual project of his or her own design. Renee is excited to start a social networking platform for all the chapters that would allow for online, network-wide discussions about global health; she is currently researching different types of platforms to see what would best fit GlobeMed's needs.
For the National Office, the summer is a time for large changes--how can we refine and expand our vision, approach, and impact? With the help of the summer interns, GlobeMed has the opportunity to develop pragmatic solutions to such questions and to actually enact changes. Coming from diverse universities, the interns can provide direct feedback to the National Office from the chapters’ point of view as well as from from the perspectives of very different academic disciplines and backgrounds. Additionally, the National Office hopes to help Laura, Renee, Amy, Sagar, and Brian become better and stronger GlobeMed leaders at their respective chapters; Amy says, "I can't wait to bring everything I learn this summer back to Michigan in the fall--I'm hoping the knowledge I gain here will help us develop as a chapter." Be sure to keep on the lookout for a lot of exciting changes this summer!
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