In this panel, we will discuss summer internships focused on research, public media production, and distribution. The first panelist worked as a marketing assistant with Media Education Foundation (MEF), a non profit, to prepare social media content, research professors, and expand outreach for the organization. The next panelist interned with a local independent newspaper to cover Amherst town politics and manage the organization’s social media outreach. Another panelist worked as a production assistant for an NPR affiliate radio station in Atlanta, Georgia, that centered social justice and intra-community dialogue, where they specialized in cold booking, audio editing, digital journalism, and scriptwriting. Our final panelist worked in New York at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies for its Data Hub. She transcribed primary source documents, analyzed data, and did archival research that will aid a research project to uncover the history of displacement behind New York’s Lincoln Center.

Moderator: Cora Fernandez Anderson, Associate Professor of Politics
Chair of Politics

• Learning to Pivot
  Elizabeth Alzawahra ’25, Psychology and Politics double major, Education Policy Nexus
• Data Input/Analysis: Uncovering a Hidden History
  Camila Juarbe ’26, English and Critical Race and Political Economy double major, Journalism, Media, Public Discourse Nexus
• Amplifying Marginalized Voices: A Look Inside the Making of Public Radio and Digital Media
  Lenox Johnson ’26, Romance Language major & Journalism, Media, Public Discourse Nexus
• Local News, Local Politics
  Shira Sadeh ’25, Politics and Religion double major, Journalism, Media, and Public Discourse Nexus