Illuminating their Futures: Summer 2025 Internships

Sophie’s work as a community food access intern with Philabundance has narrowed the critical gap caused by the school year ending and students losing access to free lunches by delivering fresh, nutritious meals to families throughout the summer months. Part of her inspiration for applying for this internship came from her 360 Course Cluster, “Taste,” where she saw firsthand how food systems reflect broader issues of equity, access, and identity.

As a reproductive healthcare advocate at the Northwest Abortion Access Fund in Washington, Leila has spent her summer engaging in direct action to break down barriers to reproductive healthcare. She first started working with NWAAF through a Praxis self-designed independent study in Spring 2025, where she combined her internship with academic work on the history of 21st-century reproductive healthcare activism.

Anna was based in Chile this summer, advocating for children's rights as a research and design intern with Good Neighbors, an international nonprofit. This experience helped her consider how almost anything can be considered through the lens of her History of Art major, as art is central to many spaces that aim to create change.

Emma spent her summer in the lab at the Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies at the University of Freiburg. Working under the tutelage of professors and two post-bacc students, she is pursuing a personal research project on bio-inspired polymer-based actuators and their potential in the field of sustainability.

As an environmental studies major, Priita is interested in urban sustainability and environmental justice. She has always been fascinated by Germany's “Green City” of Freiburg, so her internship there this summer, developing a tour of the city about climate adaptation for high school students, has proved to be perfect for learning about innovative city planning and transportation.

Ellen’s internship at the UNESCO Black Forest Biosphere Reserve in Schönau im Schwarzwald, Germany, has put her on the ground supporting global climate justice. As a public relations intern, Ellen's community outreach is helping to ensure that a mosaic of forests, meadows, pastures, and villages more than 1,000 years old may live and grow together long into the future.

Juanita’s chemistry major set her up well to work as a pharmacy technician in Swedru, Ghana, this summer. After two research-focused summer internships, she decided she was ready for a more hands-on, clinical experience—something that would allow her to connect directly with patients and explore the human side of healthcare.

As a marketing and communications intern with G Adventures, Sophie created campaigns celebrating the National Parks and assisted with securing brand partnerships. She has found that her Bryn Mawr education, particularly the skills she has learned as an English major, is helping her succeed at this job. The ability to write—and to write well—is invaluable and has helped her in every part of this internship.

As a sociology and political science major, Kasey wanted to spend her summer gaining direct, hands-on legal experience while contributing to work that truly matters to her. As a legal service intern, she has helped newly arrived immigrants with all forms of legal consultations at Voces Latinas, a nonprofit organization with a mission to reduce the rates of HIV transmission and violence among Latinx immigrant communities.