Internships funded previous years

2024

Research

            • Ella Ball ’25 – Thesis Research: Williamstown Dairy Farm*
            • Grace Carter ‘25 – Debris Dams and Carbon Flux: Damming Evidence?*
            • Estella Dunham ’26 – History of Feeding and Housing Wild Birds
            • Julia Karp ‘26 – A Spatial Analysis of Plant Herbivory
            • Myer Liebman ‘26 – Understanding Energy Use in a Smart Building
            • Marta Symkowick ’25 – A Legal Investigation into the Construction of the Oakland Coal Terminal
            • Lola Weber ’26 – An Environmental History of Nitroglycerin in North Adams

Internships

            • Lucie Bond ’26 – Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota
            • Hannah Coon ‘27 – Learning about Birds at the Sharon Audubon Center
            • Aliza Cotton ‘26 – Roots Rising
            • Gilly Denham ‘25 – The Shaw Institute
            • Franny Donohue ‘26 – Ten Strands
            • Maxine George ‘27 – Alaska Pacific University’s Spring Creek Farm
            • Hugh Kane ‘27 – World Aral Region Charity
            • Skyla Lumbard ‘24.5 – Communications Intern at Caretaker Farm 
            • David Luongo ‘25 – Bennington County Regional Commission
            • Emma Nathanson ‘25 – Williamstown Farms Internship: Farm Market Helper + Farmer Oral Histories
            • Henry Ouellette ‘26 – American Landscape History Research Internship, Field Horne ’73 (for Skidmore College)
            • Bradley St. Laurent ‘26 – The Berry Patch
            • Emily Swope ’26 – Mohawk Forest
            • Zee Taylor ’27 – Hoosic River Watershed Association
            • Harper Treschuk ’26 – Many Forks Farm
            • Jamie Woods ’26 –Finca Cántaros Environmental Association

Creative

            • Ben Diffley ’24.5 – The Pluriverse Pavilion
            • Elodie Griffin-Schmidt ‘26 – Creating as a Tool for Understanding: Investigating Constructions of Naturalness and Artificiality
            • Campbell Leonard ’25 – The History of Caretaker Farm
            • Sam Samuel ‘26 – The Pluriverse Pavilion
            • Leo Yihan Wang ’27 – The Pluriverse Pavilion

2023

Research

          • Sophia Trone ‘24 – What Makes a Generalist Herbivore?
          • Sajawal Abdullah ‘26 – National Transmission & Dispatch Company (NTDC) of Pakistan
          • Ella Ball ‘25 – Rich Earth Institute
          • Alana Lopez Barro Rivera ‘23.5 – Secretary of Innovation and Citizen Participation
          • Molly Blakslee ‘25 – National Agroforestry Center
          • Nicholas Bollman ‘26 – Cricket Creek Farm, Williamstown Farmers Market, and Farming Research
          • Ryleigh Emmert ‘26 – Environmental Studies Research Assistant to Investigate Cyanobacterial Algae Blooms in Maine Lakes
          • Muhammad Haad ‘26 – A Sustainable Future for Pakistan: Data-Driven Policy Making in Protecting the Environment
          • Michael Keegan ‘25 – Berkshire Regional Planning Commission
          • Brian Lavinio ‘24 – Philadelphia Energy Authority
          • Campbell Leonard ‘25 – Roots Rising
          • Rebekah Lindsay ‘25 – San Francisco Estuary Institute’s (SFEI) Clean Water Program
          • Amelia Linton’24 – Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bejing, China
          • Skyla Lumbard ’24.5 – Ten Strands
          • Cole Mason 23.5 – Wylie Environmental Data Justice Lab (WEDJ) at Northeastern University and NGO Sustainability
          • Abby Murphy – National Capital Region of the National Park Service
          • Riku Nakano – 328 North Farm
          • Arielle Nathan ’23.5 – Mohawk Forest
          • Li Platz ‘24 – Ten Strands
          • Caroline Pratt – Philadelphia Green Capital Corp.
          • Kimberly Rogers ‘24 – Hopkins Forest GIS intern
          • Ana Sofia Roldan ’23.5 – Galiano Conservancy Association
          • Talia Sanders ‘25 – Many Forks Farm
          • Emma Sandstrom ‘26 – Spring Creek Farm, Alaska Pacific University
          • Charlotte Staudenmayer ‘25 – Growing Gardens
          • Marta Symkowick ‘25 – Columbia Law School’s Initiative
          • Demetrios Vasilopoulos ’26 – Butterfield Beef and Berry Farm, Vermont

 

2022

Research

          • Angela Chen ’23 – Assessing Strategic Management Objectives for Riparian Buffers in Swedish Forestry (SUAS)
          • Molly Frazer ’23 – Researching with Dr. Andrew Reinmann at New York Invasive Species Research Institute & CUNY’s Advanced Science Research Center
          • James Holland 22.5 – Flow: Maximizing the Utilization of Geothermal Power Plant to Produce Green Hydrogen
          • Cole Mason ‘23.5 – Research Assistant in the Wylie Lab at Northeastern University
          • Jake Peters ‘22.5 – Flow: Maximizing the Utilization of Geothermal Power Plant to Produce Green Hydrogen
          • Rick Usami ’23 – Flow: Maximizing the Utilization of Geothermal Power Plant to Produce Green Hydrogen

Internships

          • Malcolm Bellairs ’23 – Place Based Education: A Summer with the High Mountain Institute
          • Meaghan Boehm ’25 – Acterra: HomeGrown Bay Area Government Outreach Fellow
          • Sabrine Brismeur 22.5 – Berkshire Regional Planning Commission
          • Ajay Chatha ’23 – Berkshire Regional Planning Commission
          • Gus Demerath ’25 – Conservation Policy and Advocacy at Audubon Naturalist Society
          • Caleb Dittmar 23.5 – WattTime, Climate TRACE
          • Regina Fink ‘22.5 – Berkshire Environmental Action Team
          • Rheanna Fleming ’23 – Local Pollinator Project and Williamstown Farmers Market
          • Isaac Freitas ’23 – Hopkins Forest GIS
          • Zoe Getzin ’24 – Philadelphia Green Capital Corp.
          • Adelaide Herman ’25 – Roots Rising
          • Benjamin Kargere ’24 – Inventory of Waste Wood and its Potential Uses in NW MA/Mohawk Trail Woodlands Partnership
          • Josh Kirschner ’24 – Bennington Regional Commission
          • Jahnavi Kirtaine ’24 – City of Lynn, MA Planning Department
          • Brian Lavinio ’24 – Clean Energy Planning Intern At BRPC
          • David Luongo ’25 – Big Sky Berlin Farm
          • Caitlin Murphy ’24 – Mohawk Forest
          • Tali Natter ’23 – Vermont Community Planning and Placemaking Summer Internship
          • Mila Nazarali ’23 – Summer Wilderness and Residental Life Intern at High Mountain Institute
          • Jenae Rasmussen ’23 – Spring Creek Farm
          • Kimberly Rogers ’24 – TREE Foundation
          • Oliver Schalet ’25 – Bird Conservatory
          • Dover Sikes ’24 – Berkley Office of Energy and Sustainable Development
          • Kitt Urdang ‘23.5 – Charlotte Energy Committee
          • Lydia von Schwanenfluegal ’23 – Williamstown Rural Lands

Creative

          • Xan McKenna ’24 – Investigating Natural Landscapes and Climate Change through Art
          • Chander Payne ’23 – Urban Beet: Planting Seeds of Hope in Four U.S. Cities
          • Marta Symkowick ’25 – A book exploring women in the back country

2021

Research

          • Sarah Brusini ‘23 – Eelgrass Beds and Blue Carbon:  Combating Climate Change in the Mystic River Estuary
          • Nashe Gumbo ‘24 – A qualitative study of the innovation disparities between solar and biogas energy technologies in the United States
          • Jose Guzman Vazquez ‘24 – Turning waste into black gold
          • Lilia Robinowitz ‘22 – Marijuana in the U.S. and Latin America from the 1960s-1990s
          • Kiara Royer ‘24 – Diversifying Maritime History and Searchable Sea Literature
          • Dover Sikes ‘24 – Hopkins Forest Archive Research Assistant
          • Olivia White ‘22- The Opportunity for Sustainability in Golf

Internships

          • Dante Gutbord ‘24 – Education and Conservation at Mystic Aquarium
          • Emily Hugo ‘23 – Conserving Our Coast: A Conversation Concerning Climate Change on Long Island
          • Josh Kirschner ‘24 –ThinkGlobal Institute
          • Jahnavi Kirtane ’24 – Writing the Land (Nature Culture)
          • Abby Matheny – The Big Burn
          • Maxine Ng ‘22 – Sprucing up the Spruces
          • Rwick Sarkar ‘23.5 – Learning, Teaching, and Being: A Summer with Roots Rising
          • Kedar Veeraswamy ‘24 – Government Affairs Intern for Our Children’s Trust
          • Lydia von Schwanenfluegel ‘23 – Williamstown Farmers Market and Bee Friendly Williamstown

Creative

          • Nadiya Atkinson ‘21.5 – Mushrooms and Forests: Environmental Activism for Children
          • Will McCormick ‘23 – Berkshirian Buddhism
          • Xan McKenna ‘24 – Exploring the Diversity and Preservation of Nature through Visual Art
          • Mico Mendoza ‘24 – Laya
          • Chander Payne ‘24 – Urban Beet–building regenerative urban farms at homeless shelters
          • Hope Wiley ‘22 – Hearing Hopkins:  A Soundscape Archive of Hopkins Forest