Internships & Jobs
Alice Deal Middle School
Current
I am currently interning at Alice Deal Middle school through my Museum Education Master's Program at the George Washington University. As part of my internship, I will be observing and facilitating my supervisor's work. In addition, I will be planning a field trip for a group of 8th graders.
Check back later to see more about this internship!
Grove Park Elementary
During my final semester at Elon University, I took a class called Elementary Education. We read a number of books and articles from different educational theorists and compared them to our internships at a local school in Burlington, NC.
I worked closely with an elementary school teacher, Jennifer Jones, helping and observing the classroom environment, her teaching methods and her interactions with the students. I found the experience to be very eye-opening because I didn't have a lot of experience with teaching and interacting with a younger age group before this experience.
Spring 2017
National Portrait Gallery
Summer 2016
My internship at the National Portrait Gallery in the Summer of 2016 cemented my passion to pursue a career in the museum field. My wonderful bosses provided me countless opportunities to become involved in various areas of the National Portrait Gallery. I worked under the Student and Teacher and Youth and Family Program coordinators.
Student and Teacher Programs
I researched, compiled and presented information pertaining to a teen-to-young adult learning project. This project was extremely time consuming and warranted the use of NPG's digital catalogue, TMS. I also worked with a colleague to create self guides for students and teachers who come to the gallery without booking a tour. In order to do this, I researched different teaching and instructing methods used at other museums and public spaces across the world. I helped prepare for and facilitated my boss's instruction for two Learning to Look Summer Teacher Institutes. This allowed me the opportunity to work closely with visitors and a learning platform, learninglab.si.edu. I was also involved with NPG's social media pages (mainly
Picture taken after a tour I co-facilitated with my colleague and fellow intern of American Presidents.
Pinterest.com), updating, sorting and removing content.
The most impactful opportunity given to me at the National Portrait Gallery was the chance to present a tour of 5 American Presidents to a group of Chinese-National foreign exchange students from American University (pictured at right). This was my first experience researching for, prototyping and executing a tour.
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Youth and Family Programs
My role as an intern under the Youth and Family Program coordinator allowed me to tap into my love for meeting new people from various backgrounds. One of my main roles was to prepare for handouts for the Friday Conversation Circles, a weekly event where people from all over the world come to the National Portrait Gallery to learn about American history through art and culture. On Open Studio days, I assisted an artist-instructor to facilitate visitor experience by learning about a new artist and art technique through hands-on crafts. On the weekends, I worked the Portrait Discovery Cart. The Portrait Discovery Cart holds bags filled with a historical character doll, information on that character, activity sheets to use around the museum and a seek and find booklet to allow families with younger children (or adults who were just curious!) to engage their young ones with the portraiture and facilitate their learning.
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Elon University: Elon Art Collection
2016-2017
After successfully completing my internship at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., I decided to continue pursuing my interests in museum work. I contacted Dr. Ethan Moore, Coordinator of Elon's Art Collection, and I started working at Elon University as a student worker for Elon's Art Collection. I worked on a number of different projects.
I began my internship by photographing, cataloguing and organizing images of objects within the collection onto the new cataloguing database. This allowed me to gain a compare Elon's cataloguing system against the one I used at the National Portrait Gallery. I was also able to familiarize myself with the collection.
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Perhaps the most important work I did during the year of work was that with John Giancotti, a brilliant photographer who chose to donate some of his work to Elon University. We met with John several times throughout the school year to discuss his work and plan a catalogue to document his gracious contributions to our university. Unfortunately I graduated before I could see the final product.
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Elon University: Office of Student Conduct & Center for Leadership
2015-2016
In the summer of 2015, I started working for the Office of Student Conduct and Center for Leadership at Elon University as a student worker. Not only did I answer telephones and forward messages, but I also met and corresponded with other departments at Elon to find ways to better ways to implement our ideas in easily communicated ways to students.
I worked on a number of different projects helping to promulgate our ideas throughout the university. For example, I created buttons, pins and banners. The posters I created were the most important work I did. Below are a few examples of the projects on which I worked. These posters were sent to digital screens throughout campus and printed and placed in dorms, student centers, class rooms, hallways and the library.
South East Cinemas
Summer 2015
There's not a whole lot to say about this experience! I worked in customer service, ensuring guests purchased movie theater tickets, offering concessions and cleaning the theaters, hallways and bathrooms.
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I feel it is important to include this experience as it was my first summer job, it prepared me to work with various types of people and strengthened my core values of responsibility and commitment.