My Summer Internship With TurnUp by Gretchen Volk

Internship Reflection Cover Sheet 2020 Date: 7 / 7 / 2020 Last Name: Volk First Name: Gretchen __Pre-Law ____Pre-Business ___Pre-Health Career Adviser: Lori Balantic Center (C@T, CISLA, GNCE, PICA, Other-Specify, None): SJS Pathway Class Year: 2021 Major/s/Minor/Pathway: Environmental Studies and Sociology, SJS Pathway Internship Field: Gov, Law, and IR Organization Type: Non profit Internship Organization Name: TurnUp Activism Intern Position Title: Chief of Staff Location (City, State, COUNTRY): Remote Alumni Sponsored? Name of Alum and class year if yes: N/A Alumni Supervised? Name of Alum/year if yes: N/A Brief description of the organization where you interned: TurnUp Activism is an amazing non-profit tech startup for social change and activism. They are developing an application to promote activism and voter turnout. Brief description of your responsibilities: I was originally a team leader at TurnUp, but I later got promoted to East Coast Regional Director then Chief of Staff. Some responsibilities include the following: managing executive leaders, holding regular individual and group meetings, interviewing and on boarding new leaders, daily troubleshooting of issues, and occasionally creating various templates and applications. Were you offered a full-time job through this internship? If yes, did you accept it? Explain and describe post-internship opportunities/offerings: Did you receive a firm job offer? Were you offered any networking opportunities? What sort of future opportunities (i.e. internship? job shadowing opportunity?) were established through this internship? No, I was not offered a full-time job through this internship, but I could have continued working with them throughout the school year. Given that it is my senior year and I was working around 40 hours per week, I thought it would be too much for me to do. Would you recommend this internship to another CC student? Explain your referral or not, and rank recommendation-level: highly recommend, medium, moderate, low, none: I would definitely (highly) recommend this internship to another CC student. There are so many amazing opportunities to be had within this organization. Type of internship reflection have you completed (eg. Written paper, PowerPoint presentation, Poster, Other-describe): Poster Please note, the Hale Center for Career Development may use all or part of your reflection paper/project to provide information about your internship and the Funded Internship Program. The reflection that you are required to post at Connecticut College Digital Commons website will be shared with only the college community (students, faculty, administration and others). Contact your Career Adviser if you do NOT want your reflection to be shared and refrain from uploading to Digital Commons