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From environmental justice in Flint, Mich., to hospitality in Thailand, Hamilton students made the most of their summer breaks by tackling internships in a breadth of fields and locales. Here are a selection of those learning experiences.

In 2023, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Hamilton a grant for its new curatorial studies program, and this summer a handful of students had the opportunity to work behind-the-scenes as interns at regional galleries and museums. We talked with a few about their experiences.

Emile (Em) Vasquez Mejia ’24 spent the fall 2023 semester living and learning in Washington, D.C., through Hamilton’s D.C. Program. The anthropology major and Posse Scholar shares here some of her favorite experiences and what she learned about city life, herself, and her future.

For Madeline Pittel ’24, interning at Sotheby’s has been a longstanding dream. In high school, she would walk by the auction house’s large New York office en route to a job elsewhere, all the while thinking, “I want to work there one day, and I’m going to wait for my junior year college internship. So this is a five- or six-year plan-in-the-making.”

Communications and Marketing office student writer Greg Winston ’26 tells about his summer in Washington, D.C. , interning for Rep. Joseph Morelle.

Zoe Neely ’25 has long dabbled in social media, all the while considering a shift into marketing. When the right opportunity finally presented itself, she took full advantage. This summer she is a marketing intern on the syndication team at NBC.

Virginia Davis ’25 spent the spring 2023 semester living and learning in the Big Apple through Hamilton’s New York City Program.

For an undergraduate student interested in theatre, the opportunity to contribute to every aspect of a production is invaluable. Interns at square product theatre in Boulder, Colo., get to do exactly that — just ask Del Gonzales ’25 who is spending the summer working with and learning from professionals in the field he plans to pursue at Hamilton and beyond.

Mia Horvath ’25 has always been interested in the arts, but it wasn’t until she arrived at Hamilton that she began considering an art-related career.

It’s reasonable to assume that an internship at a company called Embark Veterinary might appeal mostly to would-be veterinarians. But for Jason Healy ’22, the position has provided him the opportunity to dive headfirst into the financial and logistical aspects of running a business.