Hiatt Career Center

WOW Fellows 2011

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Marisa Turesky '13 - Share Our Strength, Washington, DC

Share Our Strength (SOS) is a non-profit devoted to ending childhood hunger through public and private partnerships, grants, and education. As part of the expansion division in the Community Investments team, Marisa conducted research on members of congress, legislation related to child nutrition, hunger, and domestic poverty; updated fact sheets describing the state of hunger and responses to it in cities and states across the country; wrote for the No Kid Hungry Blog; attended congressional hearings and events at non-profits; provided support for logistics for state campaign launch events, receptions, lobby days, and presentations; and assisted with grants by preparing correspondence and pulling information from grants database.

Working on Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign gave Marisa great insight into the world of non-profits and strategies.  Hoping to pursue a career in academia, Marisa will have to write many grant applications in upcoming years.  Working with the director of grants to review applications helped her understand what to prioritize when applying for funding.  She has solidified many great relationships in the office and with partnering organizations. The men and women with whom she connected taught Marisa a great deal about hunger in politics but also about my her capabilities in the workplace.  Additionally, she will apply these skills to creating positive change through food justice activism at Brandeis.

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WOW Fellows 2011

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Mangaliso Mohammed '12 - Mbabane City Council, Mbabane, Swaziland

The Municipal Council of Mbabane (City Council of Mbabane) is a non-profit organization located in the capital city of Swaziland, Mbabane. It governs the city as well as provides public services to ensure the health and safety of the public and the natural environment. Through his summer internship, Mangaliso worked as an assistant to the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Manager. His main duties included reviewing and improving Environmental Health and Safety Standards for monitoring school environments and most polluting industries in the city, carrying out environmental audits, developing and writing requests for proposals including Terms of Reference (TOR) to develop a Waste Management Strategy for the city of Mbabane and for the development of a Waste Information Data-Bank System for Mbabane through engaging consultants, starting up Environmental Action Groups in the urban informal settlements of Mbabane East and Mbabane West constituencies, Environmental Health education/ facilitation in the informal communities of Mbabane, as well as attending to daily office duties.

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WOW Fellows 2011

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Claire Arkin ’12 - BlinkAds, New York, NY 

Claire was involved in three separate businesses: an online customer acquisition media company called Blinkads, an online newsletter aimed at US Latinas called LaCosmopolatina, and a start-up online review database called Spokesmoms. Her tasks were varied based on which of these companies most needed her services.

For LaCosmopolatina she attended and covered events, edited, organized and published articles, wrote syndication proposals and giveaway proposals and contacted influential Latinas, among other tasks. For Blinkads, Claire wrote marketing strategy proposals and articles to be published in media company blogs, and created all content for their new website.  She also developed a launch strategy and template emails for Spokesmoms.

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WOW Fellows 2011

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Diana Wang ’13 - Brandeis University Health Psychology Lab, Waltham, MA 

The Brandeis Health Psychology Laboratory conducts research on the pathways between certain psychosocial states and health outcomes.  Diana worked on a large study that aims to determine how individual stress responses can predict health throughout the aging process.  This summer, she recruited, screened, and ran participants for this study.  Diana collected and processed blood, saliva samples, and heart rate data, and assisted in performing assays to measure markers of stress and inflammation, such as cortisol, salivary alpha-amylase and interleukin-6.  She also assisted in isolating RNA from blood for analysis and worked on a manuscript with a post-doctoral student and several other lab members.

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