Lighting up their Futures: Summer Internships 2026

Each summer, the Career and Civic Engagement Center sponsors more than 150 internships for students to apply their Bryn Mawr education in a meaningful work environment through funding or academic credit. From environmental justice to financial technology, from San Francisco to Mongolia, these internships encourage students to pursue their interests beyond the bounds of the classroom and shine a light on possible post-grad careers.

Khanh Ha Nguyen '27

This summer, Nguyen interned at Google as a software engineer intern, where she worked on frontend development and made changes to improve the user experience. Nguyen has been applying to Google since her first year at Bryn Mawr, so finally getting the opportunity to intern there was incredibly meaningful. Being able to contribute to products that have been such a big part of her everyday life is something she has always wanted to experience.

Khanh Ha Nguyen '27

The most rewarding part is knowing that something I built will be used by real people.

Joining the Workforce

Carina Roberts '28

Robert's passion for social justice and interest in pursuing a career in law inspired her to apply to an internship with the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Springfield, Mass. This internship gave her fantastic experience in the research and advocacy that form the basis of public defense and racial justice, areas which are particularly important to her as she considers her future in the field.

Anna O'Connor '28

O'Connor was an Urban Planning and Research Intern with Street Lab, an organization focused on public space activation across all boroughs of New York City. This summer offered particularly exciting opportunities, as the organization partnered with Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office to bring the excitement of the World Cup to the streets of New York.

Solongo taking a photo in a mirror in an office building

Solongo Altankhuyag '29

As an intern at the Mongolian Ministry of Finance, Altankhuyag put the theoretical knowledge she learned in her economics classes at Bryn Mawr to good use. Beyond developing the skills that will be integral to her future career path, she found that observing senior colleagues and building genunine connections with her colleagues rounded out her experience at her internship.

Jack Carlson '27

Global Change Ecology Intern at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

After a visit to the wetlands two years ago with Professor of Biology Tom Mozdzer, Jack Carlson was determined to return for a research internship. This summer, Carlson followed through on that desire and undertook a research project on porewater methane concentrations in a wetland warming experiment, work that has important impacts on building accurate carbon budgets and forecasting emission rates under climate change.

Jack Carlson '27

"It's been so important to see the realities of the job and still know that this type of research is something that I continue to find joy and purpose in."

Lucy Brannon '27 and Cece Albright '28

Two Bryn Mawr students spent their summers as gardeners with the Garten Coop Freiburg, a food justice initiative in Germany. Though they come from different majors — Brannon from biology and Albright, environmental studies — a shared interest in sustainability and the fight against food injustice drew them both to the organization. Their time in Germany has seen them planting, cultivating, and harvesting enough food to routinely distribute portions of vegetables to 300 households, impacting more than 850 people weekly.

Hands-On Experience

Eleanor Kimball '29

Kimball's summer has been spent welding, wire wrapping, and sewing parts of a larger sculpture in a studio at Amherst College, in support of a final product that will examine the relationship between GMO crops and an invasive species. For Kimball, who has always been interested in both art and science, this internship proved to be the perfect blend of the two subjects that are often viewed as conflicting.

Wendy Guo '27

Working for the Chinese Progressive Association in Boston, Massachusetts, was important for Guo, who wanted to better understand her local Asian American organizing scene and to improve her Chinese language abilities. For her, coming to work every day and learning more about the history of the community has proved invaluable for understanding modern concerns, while also remaining hopeful and confident of a more just future.

Jeanne Hardy '27

An internship with Philly Goat Project brought Hardy face-to-horn with the thirteen goats that make up this non-profit that focuses on fostering connection with nature and improving the community's well-being. From organizing goat events to donning a full Gritty costume in a play for elementary students on a hot summer day, this internship never failed to surprise and fulfill Hardy.

Keziah Keya '27

Keya put her background in math and computer science at Bryn Mawr to good use this summer in her internship at Intuit Credit Karma. As an international student, Keya has found herself personally using Credit Karma as a useful tool for understanding the American financial system, so she jumped at the chance to have an internship that resonated with her personal experience, while simultaneously exposing her to the world of financial technology. Her work this summer focused on backend engineering, where she worked on making systems more resilient by identifying the small errors that had potential to turn into large scale issues.

Keziah Keya '27

"My manager, mentor, and teammates were incredibly generous with their time and always willing to answer a question, explain something I didn't understand, or show me the ropes."

International Research

Ali sitting in front of a computer monitor

Kashf Ali '28

Ali's position as a research assistant at the University of Freiburg has her on a project that sits right at the crossroads of computer science and psychology. The positive work environment and her inspiring colleagues have contributed to an interdisciplinary research experience where her work plays directly into important global sustainability goals.

Hope at her desk side by side with ticks under a microscope

Hope Hsu '27

Hsu's research on Lyme disease at San Francisco State University has taken her out in the field to gather samples and into the lab to study the species with microscopy. It was the pandemic that initially drew her to studying the science behind disease prevention and her biochemistry and molecular biology major gave her the tools to succeed.

Eden Raich '27

After finishing a geology field course run by St. Andrews, Raich took the initiative to connect with one of the course's professors and landed a lab assistant position where she researches volcanic material found in ice cores from Antartica and Greenland. For her, the most rewarding part of the experience has been participating in the production of real data that will be used for scientific publications.

Trisha Potluri '27

Potluri's background as a neuroscience major at Bryn Mawr and interest in getting hands-on experience in a lab setting was what initially inspired her to apply for a research internship. This summer, she has participated in research on Down Syndrome at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine by administering various tissue analyses to mice in order to identify molecular mechanisms with promising abilities to improve mitochondrial function, enhance cellular bioenergetics, and regulate stress-response pathways.

"I thoroughly enjoyed learning new techniques and implementing them throughout my time here.The skills that I gained at this internship will be utilized throughout the rest of my research journey as I thesis this upcoming year."

The Internship Blog

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