DPCS Internships Stories and Reflections

Dartmouth Partners in Community Service interns are required to write a reflection paper, detailing what they accomplished during their internship, describing their experiences, and explaining what they learned or how they were changed. Included in this section are selected examples of these papers. If you are considering a DPCS internship, these papers may give you some insight into what you might experience as an intern.

Alexandra Ortego '09, Summer 2008 Intern at Bellevue Hospital in New York, NY
Connie Hu '11, Summer 2008 Intern at Operation Breakthrough in Kansas City, MO
Diana Jih '09, Summer 2008 Intern at Slow Food Chicago in Chicago, IL
Katie Carey '09, Summer 2008 Inten at Children's Aid Society in Bronx, NY
Mark Wilson '09, Summer 2008 Inten at Bensalem Emergency Medical Services in Bensalem, PA
Sam Tanyos '11, Summer 2008 Inten at IRCO- Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization in Portland, OR
Tiffany Wang '11, Summer 2008 Inten at St. Anthony's Foundation in San Francisco, CA
Tyrell Jim '11, Summer 2008 Inten at Defiance Indian Health Services in Navajo, NM
Kaite Yang '09, Spring 2008 Intern at The Haven in White River Junction, VT
David Jackson '10, Winter 2008 Intern at Bethesda Project, Philadelphia, PA
Concetta Lowery '10, Winter 2008 Intern at Indian Education Resource Center, Pembroke NC
CJ Ryan '08, Winter 2008 Intern at InMotion, New York, NY
Tara Wohlgemuth '09, Winter 2008 Intern at Memphis Area Legal Services, Memphis TN
Hannah Rossman '08, Summer 2007 Intern at Dartmouth Organic Farm in Hanover, NH
Sasha Otero '10, Summer 2007 Intern at Tenderloin Childcare Center in San Francisco, CA
David Gorman '08, Summer 2007 Intern at REAL Kids program at Harlem RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities), New York City, NY
Rosalie Hughes '07, Summer 2007 Intern at IRC headquarters in New York City, NY
Erica Jones '08, Summer 2007 Intern at Disability Rights Advocates in Berkeley, California
Louisa McCarthy '08, Summer 2007 Intern at Youth Employment Summer (YES) Program in New York, NY
Case Hathaway-Zepeda '09, Spring 2007 Intern at Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Austin Willis '08 Fall 2006 Intern at Coahoma County School District (CCSD), Clarksdale, Mississippi
Glavielinys Cruz '08 Fall 2006 Intern at PRIDE (Patient Representatives In the Department of Emergency Services), Lawrence, Massachusetts
Elise Waxenberg '08 Fall 2006 Intern at New York Legal Assistance Group, New York City, NY
Radha Kulkarni '09, Summer 2006 Intern at New York Legal Assistance Group, New York, NY
Elmer Long '07, Summer 2006 Intern at Diné CARE, Winslow, AZ
Steven McGaughey '07, Summer 2006 Intern at Search for a Cure, Cambridge, MA
Shawn S. Nelson Schmitt '06, Summer 2006 Intern at Tacoma Area Coalition of Individuals with Disabilities (TACID), Tacoma,WA
Joseph Wood '09, Summer 2006 Intern at Roanoke Rescue Squad, Roanoke, VA
Natalie Spaccarelli '07, Spring 2006 Intern at AIDS Volunteers of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Rudy Chounoune '07, Summer 2006 Intern at SuperKids Summer Camp, Baltimore, MD
Ione Curva '07, Summer 2006 Intern at D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Washington D.C
Alana Griffith '09, Summer 2006 Intern at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, New York
Alyssa Helsing '07, Summer 2006 Intern at Care-A-Van, Waikiki, Honolulu
Angela Fang '07, Winter 2006 Intern at DHMC Inpatient Psychiatry, Hanover, NH
Claire Dunning '08, Winter 2006 Intern at Women's Law Project, Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth Dupuy '08, Winter 2006 Intern Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C.
Jennifer Crombie '07, Winter 2006 Intern King County Public Health HIV Prevention, Seattle, WA
Luz Lomeli '07, Winter 2006 Intern at Y-ME Illinois, Chicago, IL
Margaret Jacobs '08, Winter 2006 Intern at Ogdensburg Free Academy, Ogdensburg, NY
Nina Rostanski '07, Winter 2006 Intern at New York City at Lawyers for Children, NYC, NY
Sarah Chaudry '07, Winter 2006 Intern at East Harlem School, NYC, NY
Lucinda Leung '06, Winter 2005 Intern at the Inpatient Psychiatry Department at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Mats Lemberger '06, Fall 2004 Intern at the Music Maker Relief Foundation, Hillsborough, NC
Natalie Allan '06, Summer 2003 Intern with Garment Worker Center, Los Angeles, CA
Samantha Schilling '05, Summer 2005 Intern at New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, MA