Rapaporte Foundation Summer Internship Grant Recipients' Sites
Thanks to a generous gift from the Rapaporte Foundation, the Women's and Gender Studies Program offers five grants of $2000 for undertaking an otherwise unpaid summer internship in an organization or project that serves the interests of women, girls, or gender equity.
Grant Recipients' Internship Sites
Summer 2007
Estee Fleischman '08
Internship site: Genital Tract Biology Lab: Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Nicole Guertin '08
Internship site: Department of Social Services-Greenfield Area Office,
Neena Pathak '08
Internship site: MOFF (Maharashshtra Organic Farming Federation),
Jessica Seitz '09
Internship site:YMCA of Oklahoma City-Domestic Abuse/Sexual
Internship site:
Summer 2006
Elina Alterman ‘08
Internship site: Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Elyssa Cohen ‘08
Internship site: Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, New York, NY
Rebecca Hughes ‘08
Internship site: Rosie's Place, Boston, MA
Michelle Lindstrom ‘07
Internship site: The Network/La Red, Boston, MA
Claudia Martinez ‘07
Internship sites: Boston Mobilization/Youth Empowerment Project, Cambridge, MA
Action for Boston Community Development, Boston, MA
Aduei Riak ‘08 (special research grant)
Internship site: Sudan's Kakuma Refugee Camp, Sudan, Africa
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Summer 2005

Adrienne Bellanich ‘07
Internship site: The Women’s Mosaic,New York, NY
Rachel Kleinbaum ‘08
Internship site: Boston Statehouse (working for State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios), Boston, MA
Angela Marchant ‘07
Internship site: Women’s Health Services, Santa Fe, NM
Dina Maron ‘08
Internship site: New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Women, Concord, NH
Amy Schiller ‘06
Internship site: Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C.
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Summer 2004
Seth Bernstein ’06
Internship site: GLAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders), Boston, MA
Ali Cooper Brand ‘05
Internship site: Project Self-Sufficient, Boulder, CO
Sarah Karpman ‘06
Internship site: Boston Mobilization-the Youth Empowerment Project, Boston, MA
Elyse Seener ‘06
Internship site: Mass Alliance Against Sweatshops and Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, Boston, MA
Yanina Seltzer ‘05
Internship site: Inter-American Court of Human Rights, San Jose, Costa Rica
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