| What does running a successful educational program include? True, there is the act of teaching itself, but, behind-the-scenes, there is also research, planning, administration, and creativity. And, as we four Mount Holyoke students discovered, perhaps the most important element of designing an educational program is understanding how people learn. We spent our summers reflecting on the distinction between teaching and learning—and recognizing the necessity of understanding both. Immersing ourselves in educational programs in Spain and the United States, we worked within this crossover every day. Drawing from our summer experiences, this panel will investigate the ways in which culture affects learning, what learning can mean to the individual, and the work needed to create a full-bodied educational program. |
| Molly Archambault |
Communicating Within Creative Culture |
| Kelsey Price |
Out of the Comfort Zone: Working in a Study Abroad Office |
| Abbey Clark-Moschella |
Smithsonian Sleepovers: What REALLY Comes to Life |
| Madeline N. Ketley |
A Summer in Southern Spain: Unlocking Opportunity with Bilingualism |
| Clapp 203 |
Social Change: the Dream Vs. the Reality |
| A non-profit in London, an arts organization in Brooklyn, a NGO in Manhattan, and a school in Chile- the panelists took the summer to join initiatives to effect social change. They were granted opportunities to be involved firsthand in important global work. Wide-eyed and excited, they went into their internships with preconceived notions about the fields and the organizations themselves. For each of them, this summer was a period of growth as they became integrated and began to understand the typical inner workings and challenges that non-profits encounter regularly. The panelists will reflect on their common experiences in working for non-profits and how these experiences have prepared them to make an impact. |
| Suri Xia |
Arts Mean Business - navigating the creative industry as a political science major |
| Anjelica Jarrett |
From Academia to Action: Human Rights in Theory and in Practice |
| Tessa Burke |
Beyond the Classroom: Student Strikes and a Lesson in Education |
| Lee Lowman |
Changing Your Mind: What to Do When Reality Doesn't Align with Expectations |
| Clapp 218 |
Something Unexpected: Making a Difference at a Desk |
| When thinking of healthcare and social work, you may imagine only how the patient fares in the outcome. What many people don’t think of is how participating in any interpersonal industry can change the professionals. Our internships took places in a variety of different places: two of our internships took place in hospitals, one in the Human Resources Department of Adidas, and another at the Smith College of Social Work. Each of us began our summer internships with low expectations of excitement and ability to make a contribution--expecting, in essence, to spend a lot of our time pushing pencils or staring at a computer screen. What actually resulted from our internships were opportunities in which we engaged in unique roles interacting with people in not only a stereotypically “professional” capacity, but found ourselves in therapeutic, challenging, often high-stress roles that forced us expand our notion of what it means to help others, and put us in positions for which we did not know we were prepared. This panel is focused on how our diverse range of internships have shaped us as students and human beings, and how these experiences have made an impact on ourselves and others. |
| Mae Petti |
Finding My Way Amidst Chaos |
| Cailin M. McGlynn |
We Rise By Lifting Others: The Personal Impact of Social Work |
| Sojourner Gleeson |
Learning about Learning: An Undergrad at the Smith School for Social Work |
| Emmi Corliss |
The Benefits of Being in Corporate Benefits |
| Clapp 306 |
Building a Healthy Future: Medicine around the Globe |
| "What does healthcare entail across the world? This presentation will follow four panelists throughout their internships in the medical field from Haiti to Newark, Bhutan to Dallas. The patient populations included youth, women, minorities, and those living in poverty. The panelists will discuss the responsibilities and challenges of shadowing, and share their experience of working in their respective medical specialties. This summer served to sharpen their communication skills with patients and colleagues, creating valuable networks of medical professionals, and forever shaping the way they will approach global health in their future careers." |
| Aliaha Daphnis |
Beyond Haiti's Mountains: Shifting the Western Perspective |
| Anqa Khan |
The Urban Underserved: Medicine in Minority Communities |
| Legzem T.Yangden |
Challenges and Growth of Counseling in Bhutan |
| Mimi Anulo |
Exploring Career Possibilities Through Shadowing Health Providers |
| Cleveland L1 |
Navigating Legitimacy: Narratives from India, China, Italy, and the United States |
| The members of this panel used LYNK funding to spend time away from their native countries, traversing borders to negotiate new social norms. Individually, each panelist entered a new community linguistically and culturally foreign from her own, and navigated the process of building relationships and gaining trust. With topics of conducting Buddhist monastic research as a non-Buddhist in rural China, beekeeping training for smallholding farmers in India, assisting community development in a Tuscan theatre conservatory, and aiding anti-discrimination law enforcement as a foreign national, this panel explores the question of how to establish professional legitimacies in new communities |
| Ruilin Fan |
Student Without Borders: Finding Legitimacy in Local Contexts |
| Jenny Daniels |
Connections, Commedia and the Journey from Student to Staff |
| Helaina Peck |
Cliff Hopping and 4AM Chants: Researching Pure Land Buddhism's Revival in a Chinese Monastery |
| Olivia Vicioso |
Bee Yourself: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Problem-Solving in Rural India |
| Cleveland L2 |
Lost in Translation |
| Information is constantly moving and being translated across different mediums and forms. This panel links internship experiences from a variety of academic arenas to a common theme of translation. Students speak about their varied experiences which include transcribing dialogues of vintage films for an international film festival, communicating scientific research to the greater community, investigating the relationship between designers and builders at a high-end furniture company, and developing a GFP reporter for a gene involved in programmed cell death. Beyond the common theme of translation each student faced difficulties of communication and learned to navigate a new environment. This panel is comprised of diverse experiences and unlikely parallels. |
| Kiera M. Sapp |
Translating the C. elegans Genome to Further the Study of Diseases Involving Cell Death |
| Claudia I. Mazur |
Oyster Aquaculture: Translating Science to the Community |
| Allison Madden |
Translation in Its Most Literal Sense: Interning at the Cineteca di Bologna |
| C. Francis McKane |
Thinking Through Design and Production |
| Cleveland L3 |
Honey, I Lost My Voice: Connecting With the Modern Audience |
| Have you ever experienced writer’s block? People in the professional world face this challenge every day. Now imagine you’re in that world; you’re working for an organization and they need you to communicate their message to a larger audience while retaining their unique and professional voice. How do you manage it? When these four students worked for news, nonprofit, and art curation organizations last summer, they built connections with greater audiences through various platforms. Whether it was by writing blog posts, creating social media campaigns, connecting with large companies to ask for donations, or curating an online gallery, each intern found their voice in a professional crowd and helped their organizations grow from the inside out. |
| Becca Frank |
Cultivating Connections: Speaking on behalf of a Larger Organization |
| Cate Cantler |
Cultivating Connections: The Importance of Building Bridges One Like at a Time |
| Mariza Mathea |
Cultivating Connections: Writing for the Modern Audience |
| Rosa Cartagena |
Cultivating Connections: Women’s Rights and Social Media |
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