Linda '83 and Paul Barnett Endowed Internship Fund

This summer I had the beautiful experience of working at Echo Farm - a small-scale diversified farm located in Essex, NY. Echo Farm is operated in conjunction with Farmstead Catering, which is an agribusiness that focuses on the production of food from seed to table. Through regenerative agricultural practices Echo Farm emphasizes the cyclical notion of sustainability - using every output as an input to both fortify the flavor of the menus they produce and care for the land around them.

During my internship with Teach For Armenia, my primary responsibility was conducting research on Generation Z students in Armenia. This project had two components: first, analyzing career aspirations and attitudes toward social impact to help the organization refine its recruitment strategies; and second, a broader study of Gen Z’s goals and opportunities beyond recruitment, which is still ongoing and has led to an extension of my work with the team.

I spent the summer working with Global Treks and Adventures both working with hands-on research in the beautiful and geologically-rich country of Iceland and working with a team of editors to learn what goes into publishing articles. 

Throughout the 2024 Summer season, I worked as a collections management intern under the direction of Dr. Mindy Pitre, Chair of St. Lawrence University’s Anthropology Department. My internship involved re-cataloging and researching a series of Alaskan artifacts from a collection donated to the university in 1978 by James and Ione Couch.