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Mr. Callahan worked over the summer with the Berea Summer Food Service Program, a free meals program by Berea College and the USDA to help alleviate food insecurity for young people during the summer months. The role Mr. Callahan played specifically was in being the Media/Publicist intern; documenting and promoting the program, staff, and events. Some of his duties included taking photographs, constructing films, and publicizing the Berea Summer Food Service Program. He also filled in for staff service meals at sites around Berea and leading STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) activities with young people at the food sites.

Ms. Ruplinger did her internship in Louisville, Kentucky. She worked with Louisville Showing up for Racial Justice. Her daily duties consisted of working with Louisville’s social justice groups. She also work directly with Black Lives Matter, Mijente, REACT (Rubbertown Emergency Action), Democratic Socialists of America, and other groups. Her role consisted of helping to plan activist training and run projects, as well as lobbying her representatives and other research projects during her time there.

Ms. Jent worked at the State Department in Washington DC in the Bureau of International Organizations in the Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. She had three weeks of training which included diplomatic history courses, meetings with ambassadors, and writing workshops. Some of her post-training duties included being responsible with assisting long-term projects that related to the United States’ role on the Human Rights Council and the United Nations. She also attended foreign policy classrooms and weekly office meetings where she reported n the progress of her work, researched topics for her colleagues for upcoming reports, and organized large sums of information into results they could learn from.