NAME: Derek Orenshein ’20SB MAJOR: Business Intelligence and Marketing Analytics HOMETOWN: Los Angeles, California As an IT Automated Intelligence Intern in the office of the Chief Information Officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Derek’s goal involved creating “a program that would automate the…
NAME: Ellie Parker ’20SB MAJOR: Strategy and Entrepreneurship (management), with a minor in English HOMETOWN: Atlanta, Georgia As a student enrolled in pre-law at YU, Ellie Parker had the most appropriate internship possible: working with Judge Ruchie Freier at the Kings County Civil Courts in ...
NAME: Aharon Benchimol ’21YC MAJOR: Political Science and Psychology HOMETOWN: Caracas, Venezuela Aharon worked in Congressman Adriano Espaillat’s office, helping Rep. Espaillat serve the constituents of New York State’s 13th congressional district, which includes parts of Bronx and New York ...
NAME: Reena Wasserstein ’20S MAJOR: Political Science HOMETOWN: Silver Spring, Maryland Reena was able to secure a position at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as an Azrieli Fellow in Public and International Affairs. “I worked for David Makovsky, director of the Project on Arab-Israel…
NAME: Tzvi Moshe Wagman, ’20SB MAJOR: Business Intelligence and Marketing Analytics (with a minor in psychology and marketing) HOMETOWN: Hewlett, New York Tzvi worked with BrandTotal, a company founded and managed by Alon Leibovitch. He met Leibovitch in his marketing class, and through that ...
NAME: David Selis, ’19YC MAJOR: Jewish studies HOMETOWN: Palo Alto, California For a person who loves books, especially rare books, David Selis had the perfect internship in the Asian & Middle Eastern Division, Israel & Judaica Section of the Library of Congress, working on initial…
NAME: Shira Levitt ’21S MAJOR: Studio Art HOMETOWN: Silver Spring, Maryland The effort to make life more inclusive for those with disabilities has made great strides over the last several decades, in great measure because of the kind of work done by people like Shira Levitt. She worked at the…
NAME: Eliana Felder ’21S MAJOR: Biochemistry (with a minor in music) HOMETOWN: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Eliana had a rarefied summer working in the Boris Rybtchinski Lab in the Department of Organic Chemistry at Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. “My research is in the ‘sustainable…
NAME: Sara Verschleisser ’21S MAJOR: History (also following a track in pre-med) HOMETOWN: Silver Spring, Maryland This summer found Sara at a place where she had done work many times before, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “I’ve had previous positions at the NIH since high school, due…
NAME: Etta Rapp ’21S MAJOR: Double major in Computer Science and Mathematics HOMETOWN: Washington Heights, New York Etta was one of eight students accepted to this year’s eight-week Data Science Summer School, a program at Microsoft Research NYC. “The main goal of the program is to increase ...