GDL Internships

People’s Archive of rural India

PARI hosts and combines video, photo, audio and text archives. This content, new and old, takes time and effort to organize and share.

Interns met with the PARI team in order to develop ethical interviewing and journalism skills. They crafted interview questions that allowed for underrepresented communities to tell their stories, and then interviewed immigrants from India, more specifically, individuals who are not often given a voice. The story was, and always is, based on their own thoughts and experiences. Currently, they are working on publishing an article on the PARI archive website so others can read their stories as well.

Nutrition and education international

Students were split into three groups: documentation, finance, and marketing teams. The documentation interns compiled twenty years of NEI operations data and both organized and presented it. The finance interns applied for grants and forged new networking opportunities. Lastly, the marketing interns analyzed how to keep engagement, continuously pitching new ideas and strategies.