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2021 Internship Jamboree Session #1: Keynote Panel Discussion w/ Knox Alums

March 22 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Join 5 Knox alums for our opening keynote session filled with advice on how to land an internship. Learn what steps they took to search for them, how they applied, and if they followed up after their interviews. Find out what websites they used to search for internships, how/if they applied for funding for unpaid internships, how they navigated start dates that were earlier than when a Knox term ends, and any other questions you want to ask!

Keynote Panelists: Kylie Hoang '20 graduated from Knox cum laude with a major in history and minors in environmental studies and museum studies. While at Knox, she interned at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and the Oakland Museum of California. Currently, she is a Curatorial Assistant at the Minnesota Historical Society and a graduate student at the University of Minnesota.

Kati Stemple graduated from Knox in 2016 with a major in international relations and a minor in French. Upon completing her degree, she served in the Peace Corps in Morocco and worked in international education and cultural exchange for several years. She is currently a Coverdell Fellow at the University of Denver, pursuing a master's degree in international human rights and global health. While at Knox, Kati completed two internships- one in Cambodia, where she worked under the executive director of a human rights advocacy organization and another through KnoxCorps, as an associate and youth advocate at the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of West Central IL.

Michael Moss '20 - B.A. in economics and a Galesburg native. In the past year he interned with the US Census Bureau through Campus Compact as well as having interned with the Galesburg Area Chamber of Commerce through KnoxCorps.

Charles Broomfield '22 is a computer science and business & management double major, and work as a resident assistant, as a computer science tutor, and competes for the Knox track and field team. Last summer he completed a research internship with Argonne National Laboratory on the effects of quantum computing on the security of nuclear nonproliferation agencies, and will be following that up this summer with an internship at MITRE Corporation, a non-profit federal research company.

Joel Willison '20 - While at Knox Joel interned at New York Stage and Film (NYSAF), A theatre company focused on workshopping Broadway plays (such as Hamilton and Hadestown), for Carpentry. In NYSAF Joel learned more about set carpentry and arts admin in professional theatre. The network and connections made at NYSAF led Joel to creating a theatre company after graduating from Knox for which many members of the NYSAF community are collaborators. Join Zoom Meeting 

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