100%
of First Year Seminar advisers collaborate with the career office annually
The Hale Center's Flexible Funding program provides you access to funds you can use to engage in career-focused internships and other opportunities to enhance your competitive edge over four years.
Want to attend a professional conference? Job shadow an alum in a field of interest? Pursue an internship at a startup? We’ve got you.
The Flexible Funding Program allows you to explore opportunities as early as your first year. Participation in the Career Preparation Course makes you eligible to submit an Action Plan for flexible funds. We are one of only a handful of colleges in the country that offers all students funding opportunities for internships and career preparation during all four years.
IT'S CAREER ENGAGEMENT WHEN YOU NEED IT.
MEET SOME OF OUR 2019 INTERNS:
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Viangely Asencio ’20
Majors: Government, Italian Studies and Sociology
Pathway: Global Capitalism
Hometown: Miami, Florida
Internship: Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Asencio, who is interested in how subsidized housing programs perpetuate the culture of poverty, spent the summer conducting research on public housing under the direction of Shamus Khan, chair of the Sociology Department at Columbia University.
Victoria Azoulay ’20
Major: Psychology and Economics
Pathway: Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Value and Change
Hometown: New Canaan, Connecticut
Internship: Pfizer Inc., New York, New York
Azoulay’s responsibilities in the Hospital Business Unit included working on projects to create a team website, editing a slide deck for medical-to-medical use, and researching countries in need of surveillance of antimicrobial resistance. She’ll leverage the summer experience at Pfizer by continuing to work in the healthcare industry after graduation.
Hector Salazar ’20
Majors: Anthropology and Environmental Studies
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Internship: Institute for Field Research, Uncasville, Connecticut
Salazar worked as a field archaeologist for IFR, an academically rigorous, peer-reviewed field school that ensures top quality in both research and teaching. The program covers a breadth of human, echological, geological and natural history.
Meghan Murray ’21
Major: Biology
Hometown: Burlington, Massachusetts
Internship: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Murray’s placement in a cellular and developmental biology lab at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases was both rewarding and challenging. She worked independently on detailed cellular processes with genes unfamiliar to her, and had a memorable learning experience geared toward public health.
Cameron Aaron ’21
Majors: Computer Science and Psychology
Hometown: Studio City, California
Internship: GitHub Inc., San Francisco, California
Aaron interned at GitHub, a company recently acquired by Microsoft that specializes in code sharing and software version control. By honing his machine learning, metrics, community building and software engineering skills, Aaron ensured customers received the best experience possible.
Hope Murphy ’20
Major: Economics
Minors: Statistics and Computer Science
Hometown: Portland, Oregon
Internship: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield, Massachusetts
Murphy was a business analyst and project management intern with the Enterprise, Technology and Experience branch’s Product and Brokerage Team. The team oversees the creation and rollout of technology services that support MassMutual Financial Advisors’ product development and brokerage distribution channels.
Bailey Whitman ’20
Majors: Economics and Environmental Studies
Pathway: Social Justice and Sustainability
Hometown: North Wales, Pennsylvania
Internship: Envirocon, Missoula, Montana
Whitman interned at Envirocon, a top-performing remediation and ecological restoration firm recently selected by the Environmental Protection Agency to remediate and restore several Superfund sites. During the two-part internship, Whitman worked with the financial team at the corporate headquarters in Montana and on-site at the Curtis Paper Mill in New Jersey.
McKaela Simons ’21
Major: Computer Science
Hometown: Redmond, Washington
Internship: Microsoft, Redmond, Washington
Simons spent 12 weeks on a small team within the Microsoft Intune division, tackling assigned projects and problem-solving as program manager and software engineer.
Neal Mahoney ’22
Majors: Economics and International Relations
Minor: Finance
Hometown: West Peabody, Massachusetts
Internship: Insight Services Group, Danvers, Massachusetts
At Insight Services Group, an anti-fraud insurance consulting firm, Mahoney worked to condense reports from private investigators into compact communications for clients, and helped manage private investigators in 47 states (“Sorry Maine, Alaska and South Dakota,” he says).
Margaret Davey ’20
Major: Psychology
Minor: Sociology
Pathway: Bodies/Embodiment
Hometown: Groton, Massachusetts
Internship: C_Space, Boston, Massachusetts
Davey, who is interested in the interactions between people and technology, interned at the Boston-based market research company C_Space, looking at ways to use a survey mobile app to get the most effective information from users.
Stephanie Lewis ’21
Major: Behavioral Neuroscience
Hometown: Tolland, Connecticut
Internship: Children’s and Mother’s Emotions Laboratory, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Lewis worked closely with graduate students, studying how mothers can best respond to their infants in order to manage their frustrations. Day to day, she was involved not only in recruitment and screening of participants, but also in carrying out the research protocol with a fellow research assistant.
Alexandra Bernardo ’20
Majors: Film Studies and Economics
Pathway: Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Value and Change
Hometown: Chatham, Massachusetts
Internship: Ecast Productions, Boston, Massachusetts
Bernardo worked with Ecast Production helping its clients tell stories, solve communication challenges and engage audiences. Through video, photography and live events, she helped Ecast create content that has a lasting impact.
Rosalinda Pineda ’20
Major: Sociology
Hometown: Santa Ana, California
Internship: Boys and Girls Club, Santa Ana, California
Pineda saw the opportunity to give back in her hometown—while shaping the foundation for her future career goals—as a family-strengthening intern with the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Ana.
Erica Hesser ’20
Major: Economics
Hometown: Rye, New Hampshire
Internship: Aetna, Hartford, Connecticut
For her second summer experience with Aetna, a CVS Health Company, Hesser focused on project management, ranging from organizing a community service project from start to finish to guiding executives on a new Aetna Student Health platform.
