Claudia Woods has an internship with the Rappahannock Council on Sexual Assault (RCASA) in Fredericksburg this spring semester, 2021. Claudia’s two majors in English and Women and Gender Studies and her minor in Social Justice, along with her prior experience in sexual and interpersonal violence prevention have helped hone her skills and passions to prepare […]
The lovely Rappahannock River that flows through Fredericksburg has been a place of recreation, inspiration, and education. Over the years, UMW faculty and students from various UMW departments–from Biology, Earth and Environmental Science, to Geography and Spanish–have partnered with Friends of the Rappahannock (FOR), a local non-profit group whose mission is “to be the voice […]
Senior Cathryn Kinde (History and American Studies) spent Summer 2020 as a Film Archive intern for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Although due to the COVID-19 pandemic she was not able to be physically present in the museum, she was able to gain valuable experience remotely by cataloging, researching, and authenticating new films […]
Hina Zafar is a 2019 UMW graduate with a major in Psychology and a minor in Business Spanish. In her last semester of school, she worked with Stafford Junction for a semester-long internship. Stafford Junction is a non-profit organization that provides educational resources to low-income families in Stafford County in order to help them become […]
During the 2018-2019 academic year, English major Elisabeth DellaRova interned at Downtown Greens as a Marketing and Communications intern. Downtown Greens is a small nonprofit in Fredericksburg that provides open community greenspace, gardening workshops, and youth programming. Elisabeth coordinated their Fall 2018 Giving Tuesday campaign, ran the Facebook and Instagram pages, helped with content creation […]
