Summer Links 2017 Internship Host Site Profile
Student / Supervisor / Organization and Mission / Internship Project / NeighborhoodAvishi Agarwal / Aileen Aragones,
Program Manager / College Possible:
To help low-income students earn admission to college, as well as earn their bachelor’s degree / Train in processes and procedures to maintain contact and hold students accountable to task specifically as they transition from high school to college and track interactions between AmeriCorps members and students in a systematic way to ensure that students are fully supported beginning at the end of August / River North
Anna Aguiar Kosicki / Robert Smith III,
Associate Director / National Public Housing Museum:
To preserve, promote, and propel public housing as a human right through exhibitions and public programs that frequently collaborate with community partners in order to interpret the American experience in public housing / Serve as a Research and Collections intern to support staff on all collections management activities and institutional research priorities, including oral history, exhibition development, and public and conference presentations / River North
Jack Balch / Officer Jennifer Maddox,
Officer Administrator / Chicago Police Department:
To build a safer, more peaceful city, through building authentic relationships between people in law enforcement and their fellow residents with whom they must co-create peace, focusing on those neighborhoods and police districts that suffer the greatest amount of harmful behaviors, which coincides with the deepest mistrust of the system of law enforcement / Keep track of streams of engagement and help communicate with members of the community and department members to ensure proper follow up and evaluation of relationship building alongside screening offers to help bridge the divide to determine appropriate situations to connect them with CPD’s efforts / Bronzeville
Adam Berger / Maria Post,
Program Director / Taller de Jose:
To provide resources and connections with other agencies to make social services more accessible to a population in need regarding any legal, personal, financial, immigration, or counseling needs present / Work directly with clients as a Compañero/a (individual companion) in order to provide clients with high level services in order to gain a better understanding of the challenges they face and how to overcome them while working with the social service system in Chicago / Little Village
Regina Campbell / Jessica Carrillo,
Director of Programs / BUILD, Inc.:
To engage at-risk youth in the schools and on the streets, so they can realize their educational and career potential and contribute to the stability, safety, and well-being of our communities / Assist in planning and executing a back-to-school community health fair that provides members of Austin with school supplies, access to physicals and immunizations, and dental check-ups, as well as work with the agency’s Peer Health Educators (PHEs) / Austin
Arnav Chatterjee / Lauren Wesley,
Director of Development / North Lawndale Employment Network:
To improve the earnings potential of the North Lawndale community through innovative employment initiatives that lead to economic advancement and an improved quality of life for residents, especially citizens returning from incarceration and other hard-to-employ job seekers / Work closely with the Evaluation and Innovation Manager and other senior leadership team members to support the organization’s ongoing program evaluation, coordination, assessment, and monitoring activities / North Lawndale
Ian Grant-Funck / Norma Sanders,
Director of Special Initiatives / GAGDC – Education Communications:
To foster and promote revitalization of the communities that make up greater Auburn Gresham community by coordinating and organizing educational and community sustainable programs to meet the needs of community residents, with a focus on children and families / Work as a communications coordinator intern assisting the communication resources in promoting public awareness about GADC with both its brand and opportunities for involvement, as well as publish content about programming to attract, engage, train, and activate new supporters / Gresham
Alisha Harris / Alex Goldenberg,
Executive Director / Southside Together Organizing for Power:
To advance economic and social human rights by organizing and developing leadership among people most affected by economic and racial oppression / Support summer youth program door-to-door canvassing training and execution, work with youth to support the Community Benefits Agreement Campaign and Trauma Center Campaign to raise awareness about these initiatives as well as work directly with youth in the trauma center through youth focus groups, outreach, research, and facilitated community input / Woodlawn
Katie Hill / Kris Casey,
Program Manager / SkyArt:
To provide youth with an accessible, safe place to participate in quality visual arts programs at no cost, understanding that the power of art is transformative in its capacity to enhance intellectual, emotional, and social development / Oversee the work of 8-10 high school age SkyART Youth Interns, and participate in all of their activities as a Classroom Assistant, Garden Assistant, Outreach Assistant, Social Media Producer, Community Artist / South Chicago
Ayo Idowu / Kenneth Gunn,
Deputy Commissioner / Chicago Commission on Human Relations:
To enforce the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance and the Chicago Fair Housing Ordinance, investigating and adjudicating related complaints, providing mediation, and offering educational workshops on topics such as conflict resolution / Conduct research on issues pertaining to pending legislation, organize and participate in community outreach, and plan and conduct workshops / River North
Julia Jacobs / Abel Ochoa,
Director / Collegiate Scholars Program:
To prepare talented Chicago Public Schools students from a diverse socioeconomic and ethnic background for admissions and success at highly selective colleges by encouraging students to ask questions, engage in an increasingly complex sociopolitical world, and pursue knowledge with rigor / Assist with organizing, implementing, and monitoring summer academic, community, and cultural enrichment projects and programs, under the guidance of dedicated CPS staff members by writing reports, communicating with students/parents, updating social media and the website, data entry, and more / Hyde Park
Ashvini Kartik-Narayan / Skyla S. Hearn,
Archivist and Special Collections Librarian / DuSable Museum of African American History:
To promote understanding and to inspire appreciation of the achievements, contributions, and experiences of African Americans through exhibitions, programs, and activities that illustrate African and African American history, culture, and art / Work directly with the Archivist on specific projects including archival workshops, material selection for upcoming exhibitions, community engagement and outreach, inventory reports, collection survey and inventory of archival materials, and a final presentation to illustrate the learning outcomes of the internship / Hyde Park
Sanya Khatri / Pat Ebervein M. Ed, Scott Zagalak M. Ed,
School Services Coordinators / Lurie Children’s Hospital – School Services:
Lurie Children’s is guided by the belief that all children need to grow up in a protective and nurturing environment, where each child is given the opportunity to reach his or her potential. Our vision is to provide a brighter future for all children. / Research, plan, and develop curriculum, events and activities for academic programing In the School Services Program which works to educate chronically ill children, including initiatives involving the new library while incorporating best practices for literacy / Streeterville
Anne Li / Kimberlee Guenther, Ph.D.,
Director of Outcomes and Measurements / United Way of Metropolitan Chicago:
To transform communities of greatest need throughout our region by linking research-based community strategies to the resources needed to implement them in order to deliver transformative, measurable results / Update community profiles for each of the 10 neighborhoods in United Way Neighborhood Network Research and synthesize data by consolidating any submitted data into a landscape scan of data capacity, as well as contribute research to the production of three executive briefs outlining the benefit of a Labor partnership in the Chicago Metropolitan region / The Loop
Shree Mehrotra / Joe Albritton,
Deputy Commissioner / Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities:
MOPD promotes total access, full participation and equal opportunity for people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, in all aspects of life, including transportation, education, housing, recreation, employment, voting, and emergency preparedness / Work directly with the Financial Empowerment Council and Employment Task Force initiatives by researching data, developing and maintaining a list of Council and Task Force members, scheduling and attending meetings, assisting with meeting minutes, and assisting with drafting reports / The Loop
Veronica Myers / Quenna Barrett,
Education Programs Manager / Arts + Public Life, UChicago
To build creative connections on Chicago’s South Side through artist residencies, arts education, and artist-led projects and events / Assist in the administration of teen programs at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park by supporting staff instructors, implementing education programs, performing documentation and assessment, and developing a fall program curriculum / Washington Park
Khoa Phan / Julia Plumb,
Program Director / OAI – Highbridge Social Enterprise:
To develop and implement nationally recognized models for demand-driven, cost effective employment and training programs with a commitment to preserving the environment and advocating for environmental justice in low-income disenfranchised communities through the promotion of green jobs / The integration of hands-on experiences in ecological landscape design, exposure to professionals in urban planning, and experience with non-profit organizing by installing green infrastructure, assisting with grant-funded outreach efforts, shadowing professionals at key policy meetings to promote improvements to regional green infrastructure, and office time to plan and implement garden lessons for middle school students / The Loop
Emily Rao / Marco McCottry,
General Manager / Uber:
To enable people to connect to safe, reliable, and affordable transportation at the tap of a button, and to enable people to be their own boss and tap a button to find work / Support 1-2 community-based initiatives by matching directly with a city team to coordinate initiatives such as Back-to-School campaigns, as well as acquire basic skills such as communication, project management, and technical skills through exposure to a technology company. / West Loop
Nur Banu Simsek / Gail D. Arrigo,
Director of Operations / Chicago United:
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, executive level management, and business diversity / Conduct research to track Business Leaders of Color honorees and record their board involvement and career path since their nomination, conduct research for potential speakers for member programs that deliver innovative ideas and facilitate conversations for the Chicago business community, and update the Minority Board directory with companies that are working in the Five Forward program / East Loop
Katherine Vega / Jamie Clare Flaherty,
Director of Strategic Initiatives / The Obama Foundation – Office of Civic Engagement:
To inspire the next generation of young leaders all over the world by convening the brightest minds with the newest ideas from across the political spectrum and drawing strength from the rich diversity and vitality of Chicago / Develop and implement sophisticated management system to identify, categorize, and track community leaders, research and record the best practices in diverse hiring and general participation, and provide a support staff role to the OCE in the development of a workforce program / Hyde Park