Melissa Nong, COL ’24, Quakertown, PA What does a just and equitable food system look like? And how do we create a dignified and community-driven access point to nutrition for our neighbors? These two questions were the core of my …

Nancy Zhu, SEAS & WH ’24, Philadelphia, PA Thanks to Penn Career Services’ Summer Funding, this summer I had the opportunity to explore my interest in product while giving back to the community that I grew up in. I worked …

Naomi Zucker, PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology This summer, I was fortunate to work as an intern at Topos Partnership, a public opinion/strategic advising research consultancy that draws on social scientific methods (especially linguistics and anthropology) to explore (and help …

Grace Dai, COL ’25, Winston-Salem, NC Ever since learning that livestock agriculture contributes significantly to global warming, I’ve been curious about ways to reduce those emissions. Over my COVID gap year, I worked with Symbrosia, a biotechnology company growing red …

Macy Stacher, COL ’24, New York, NY This summer I had the amazing opportunity to participate in a fellowship with the Roosevelt Institute, a public policy think tank working to rewrite the rules to build a more democratic economy in …

Kate Ratner, COL ’25, Philadelphia, PA This summer, I worked as a Public Relations intern at Braithwaite Communications in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Braithwaite is a boutique PR firm that represents clients in several industries such as pharmaceuticals, financial services, food production, …

Alek Davis, COL ’23, Leesburg, VA This summer I interned at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. on their Corporate Social Responsibility team. Having no prior experience in the retail industry, I didn’t know what to expect from this internship experience, but I learned …