Elinor Jannotta '91 Internship Fund

After graduating from SLU in 2022, I spent the summer in D.C. working as an editorial intern at the Daily Caller, an online news outlet covering a wide range of topics, from U.S. and world politics to the latest in entertainment news. I had the opportunity to be trained as an editor during the internship, and as a result gained a first-hand look behind the scenes of the fast-moving online news publication. From pitching story ideas to editing articles, I worked closely with the other editors and reporters at the Daily Caller in the newsroom each day.

I went to a small, remote village in the mountains of Eastern Peru called Ampas. Here I was part of a team of 12 other students and 7 professors, all working to excavate the remains of two different groups of people that were in the area about 2,200 to 1,600 years ago. We worked in the field for 2 weeks and in the lab for one. We focused on a known burial site that was discovered by a professor of Tulane and my field school director, Dr. Bebel Ibarra. We focused on excavating and rebuilding tombs. We collected over 400 pieces of bone, as well as some lithics and hundreds of pottery sherds.

Working with Projeto Verde Mar I had the opportunity to engage with environmental reporting and conservation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I am from. Thanks to this internship, I gained insight on the specificities of environmental work in Brazil, such as our policies and current challenges.