Testimonials

I started volunteering with Fundación Del Empresariado Sonorense (FESAC) in June of 2020, after a fellow Stanford student told me about BCA, FESAC’s partner organization committed to immigrant rights and community development at the U.S.-Mexico border. 

I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to intern at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. My experience at SSRC really cemented my passion for conflict prevention and my conviction in the power that international organizations have to make the world more...

Over the summer, I was assigned to co-mentor a group of students in their consulting project with Shining Star, a non-profit organization that provides mental health resources for children in a rural community in Guangdong. As a student studying both Psychology and East Asian Studies at Stanford, I...

I am a junior majoring in International Relations with a human rights minor. I hope to attend law school and pursue human rights or immigration law. This summer I was an External Relations intern at Cristosal, an NGO based in El Salvador whose goal is to advance human rights in the Northern...

This summer I hoped to gain valuable experience working at a tech company in order to determine if I wanted to major in computer science. After my time working with Intumit, a company in Taipei, Taiwan, I am confident that I will major in CS. Because of the pandemic afflicting the world, I was...

During my summer internship at Paris, France, I learned and utilized a battery of molecular genetics tools together with high-throughput in vivo microscopy and image analyses to figure out the chromatin motility. As the project was directly related to my major and interest, the internship...

Above the simple iron gates, the painted towers rise: yellow and orange, green and blue. An icy wind chills my fingers, but the cold and consistently damp rain of this Saturday morning hasn’t discouraged me—or any of my fellow students—from venturing outside. We’re at the Ismailovskii Kremlin in...

This summer, I worked as a design intern at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, a prominent public art museum in Sydney, Australia. During the internship, I focused on creating a map redesign for the art museum. This project involved research into how other major museums and cultural institutions...

This internship has been everything I dreamed it to be and more. Everyone at Venture Republic is so nice. I’ve learned more than I thought I could ever know about the travel industry, how companies in Japan operate, and how international Japan really is.