Pardee Students Inducted into Yawkey Program

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Three students at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University have been inducted into the prestigious Yawkey Nonprofit Internship Program for 2016.

In total, 12 Yawkey stipends were awarded, so Pardee School students have claimed a quarter of the prizes. This year’s Yawkey stipend awardees are Natasha Patel (Pardee’17), and Elizabeth Burke and Minyoung Kim (Pardee’18).

Boston University’s Yawkey Nonprofit Internship Program is a selective educational program designed for sophomores and juniors that provides a living allowance stipend to support participation in unpaid internships at nonprofit organizations.

In addition to facilitating students’ participation in unpaid nonprofit internships, the program provides an educational framework which strengthens the experience through a series of program components that help students to plan for, engage in, and reflect upon their internships.

Patel will intern at School the World, a group whose goal is to provide access for quality education to those living in the rural villages of Central America. Burke will intern at the UN Association of Greater Boston, and Kim will intern at the Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights, a think tank based at the University of Massachusetts- Boston. 

The Yawkey Program is one of BU’s two main internship support programs. The other is the Santander Sophomore Internship, a selective, educational program for BU students to engage in meaningful workplace experiences through unpaid summer internships, improving their readiness for the labor market. The program is designed both to guide participating students as they seek summer internships and to enable their participation by providing a living allowance stipend. 

Two Pardee School students have been awarded Santander Sophomore Internship stipends in 2016; Gayoon Kim and Reona Shinkai (Pardee’18). The Santander program does not require an internship destination to be selected prior to award.