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  • Avrah Levitan-Cooper (Honors Political Science) completed an AUCC-SFD internship at Nexos Voluntarios in Peru, 2012.

  • Interns Kimberley Smith (BA Economics) and Liam Kirwin (BA Economics) at Green Power in Kianyaga, Kenya, 2012.

  • Lauren Pochereva, inaugural PFF fellow, completed her PFF project in December 2012. Thanks to Lauren, St. Monica School in NDG now has a beautiful fruit and vegetable garden!

  • Christian Scott Martone-Donde, second inaugural PFF Fellow, began his PFF project in Guadalajara, Mexico, in September 2012.

  • Carissa Connelly, recipient of the 2012 Pascale International Fellowship, had the opportunity to meet former President Clinton during her internship at the Clinton Foundation in New York City.

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Notes from Kianyaga

2012 AUCC award recipients Liam Kirwin and Kimberley Smith spent three months last summer living in Kianyaga, Kenya, and interning at Green Power, an NGO geared toward developing energy models for sustainable power in rural households.

Read more about their experience working on this project, and the gender relations that they encountered in rural Kenya.

PFF Community Leadership Fellowships

Community-based change. Student-led innovation.

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The PFF Community Leadership Fellowships offer extraordinary opportunities to young McGill students with innovative ideas, helping them to bring sustainable and positive social change to the communities in which they work.

For more information, click here.

 

The inaugural recipients of the PFF Community Leadership Fellowships

Christian Scott Martone-Dondé (BA'11, MA'12) and Lauren Pochereva (BA'09, DipSci'12)

Christian Scott Martone-Donde, 2012 PFF Fellow Lauren Pochereva, 2012 PFF FellowThe PFF Community Leadership Fellowships offer extraordinary opportunities to McGill students with innovative ideas, helping them to bring sustainable and positive social change to the communities in which they work.

Christian's project, Vive Santa Tere, is a community development project that aims to empower citizens and regenerate the trust-networks and sense of community in a working-class neighborhood in Guadalajara, Mexico.  Lauren will be creating a new vegetable garden at the St. Monica Elementary School, in partnership with the school’s daycare program and local NGO Action Communiterre. To read more about Lauren's and Christian's projects, click here.

The Pascale International Fellows Program at the William J. Clinton Foundation

Clinton Global InitiativeEstablished in 2005 as a major initiative of the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) convenes global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.

Each year, one Pascale International Fellow will be chosen from McGill University and one from Yale College.  The Pascale International Fellow will work full-time with the CGI on its outreach efforts, partnership opportunities, special projects, extensive research support, and project management from  May 22 to the end of September.

For more information about the program, click here.

 Carissa Connelly, 2012 Pascale International Fellow2012 Fellow: Carrissa Connelly, BA, Honours International Development

Carrissa Connelly will graduate from McGill in June 2012 with a BA in Honours International Development. Her main interest is on the growing overlap between private and civil organizations that pursue social improvements.  Through the Pascale International Fellows Program, Carrissa will work in data management and communications at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York during the summer of 2012.

 For more information on Carissa and other past fellows, click here.

Internship Viewbook: A World of Experience

Internships are an increasingly important way to complement one's degree with real-world experience. Students from all of McGill's faculties, covering an impressive array of fields, are undertaking internships that are allowing them to gain practical experience, to deepen their studies, and to open doors for future opportunities.

"A World of Experience," published by the Internship Offices Network, profiles McGill student-interns and the Faculty Internship Programs that helped them along the way.

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