The 2003 Interns
For more information, contact the School’s Internship Coordinator Dr. James Flynn, at his office in 180 Graham Hall or by phone at 302-831-4658.
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Yaozhu “Juliette” Chen
AARP–Delaware
Pictured with Jan Robinson (left), AARP Delaware State Director and Lisa Wolfe (right), Associate State Director for Communications, Juliette conducted regional environmental scans to determine public/private health programs, social services, and community resources available to adults age 50 and over. Her research contributed to development of a nationwide service-availability model for AARP. |
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Raoul Davis
Center for Global Nonviolence
Working at the Center’s Honolulu, Hawaii, office, Raoul formulated leadership-support proposals and collaborated in the development of workshops to explore alternatives to violence. |
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Tom DeWire
Baltimore City Mayoral Fellows Program
Tom researched and implemented several major projects to align community development needs with banking and business resources available through the City’s Community Investment Office. He is pictured with Rebecca Mules, Assistant to Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley.
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Mary Kay Hamburger
Delaware Academy for School Leadership
Besides researching and writing several educational program–enrichment grants, Mary Kay organized all aspects of a statewide Charter School Summit and co-authored a report of the Summit with her supervisor, Dr. Dennis Loftus, Director of the Delaware Academy for School Leadership (DASL). |
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John Jaeger
Christina School District
John’s internship involved developing strategies for improving records-management operations for all schools and offices in the district, particularly through utilization of digital-imaging systems. |
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LeAnne Jones
Community Development Resource Center
LeAnne created a comprehensive Staff Policies and Procedures Manual for the CDRC, designed and administered a customer satisfaction survey for organizations located in the Community Services Building, and supervised several high school student workers.
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Troy Mix
Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination
Pictured with Constance Holland, Director of the Office of State Planning Coordination, and Anne Marie Townsend, Senior Planner, Troy was responsible for drafting municipal comprehensive plans and researching economic and community development benefits of the State’s "Smart Growth" initiatives. |
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Kelly Scollon
Delaware Department of Education
Under the direction of Susan Keene-Haberstroh, Executive Assistant to the State Secretary of Education, Kelly tracked all legislation related to public education In Delaware, drafted commentary on proposed administrative/regulatory changes, and responded to constituent concerns for the Office of the Secretary.
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Kim Siegel
AIDS Delaware
Kim evaluated several large-scale counseling and client-outreach projects administered by AIDS Delaware for the state health department and also supported LGBS fund-raising initiatives with agency director John Baker. |
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Dan Smith
Wilmington City Council
Dan conducted extensive non-partisan legislative research, especially on municipal tax and finance issues for the Wilmington City Council. He also researched and responded to constituent concerns under the supervision of Lynne Howard. |
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James Vadakin
New Castle County Council
James provided primary staff support for the County Council’s Redistricting Commission, maintained the Council’s website, and responded to requests for legislative research from individual Council members. He is pictured with County Council Policy Director Betsy Gardner. |
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Apryl Walker
Stand Up for What’s Right and Just
Supervised by Thomas Eichler, Apryl researched substance-abuse treatment policy alternatives. She also drafted issue briefs for the SURJ executive committee and worked on membership recruitment.
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Charles Whitmore
U.S. General Accounting Office
Pictured with Christine Brudevold, Assistant Director for Health Care, Charles conducted extensive data analysis of determinants in geographic variation in health care prices and spending with GAO’s primary healthcare services team. |
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Wenya “Grace” Yang
Christiana Care
Grace served on Dr. James Gill’s Family Medicine Center research project, focusing on two studies. One examined quality indicators before and after implementation of Uniform Clinical Guidelines (UCG) for diabetic care; the other, sponsored jointly with Oregon Medicaid, concentrated on quality of pediatric care for low-income youngsters. |
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Yuan “Ariel” You
Rachel Rivas
KIDS Count
Both Ariel and Rachel worked with Director Terry Schooley in collecting and analyzing data for the 2003 KIDS Count Delaware and KIDS Count WIlmington fact books. They also participated in several high-profile presentations of project findings to elected officials, educators, community leaders, and citizens groups. |
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R. Ryan Connor
Continuum Health Partners
Ryan was involved in implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Project to integrate human and physical resources more effectively among affiliated health facilities of Beth Israel Hospital in the New York City metropolitan area. |
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Kimberly Trohaugh
Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation
Besides gaining practical experience in grant writing for several municipal community development projects, Kim conducted primary research on formulation of the Amachi Mentoring Program for the children of prison inmates. |
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