Graduate student Trevena Goulbourne spent a productive summer as an intern through the Community Fellows Program.
by Cecil Harris
鈥淎 great thing about the Community Fellows Program is you get to meet a lot of people in your field of interest and a lot of people outside your field.”鈥揟revena Goulbourne ’14Trevena Goulbourne 鈥�14 is an 天美传媒 graduate student as prolific as she is ambitious.
Goulbourne is in the , in which students earn a bachelor鈥檚 degree and a master鈥檚 degree in five years in the . She has a with a minor in and should acquire her master鈥檚 degree in 2015. A , recipient of several academic scholarships and member of the honor societies , and , she has made the Dean鈥檚 List each year since 2010. Those distinctions, combined with a can-do spirit, earned her a .
By landing an internship through the this past summer, Goulbourne broadened her knowledge. The Laurelton, New York, native interned as an event marketer at the (NUL)鈥攖he venerable civil rights organization founded in 1910鈥攊n New York City. She attended NUL鈥檚 2014 convention in Cincinnati and met , and other members of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Goulbourne, who is pursuing an , also found a mentor in Shree Chauhan, NUL鈥檚 senior legislative manager for education and health policy.
鈥淎 great thing about the Community Fellows Program is you get to meet a lot of people in your field of interest and a lot of people outside your field,鈥� Goulbourne said. 鈥淵ou have so many opportunities for networking.鈥�
Networking is a prime benefit of the program鈥攁 competitive, paid summer internship for non-graduating students that is open to all majors and allows students to gain valuable experience in the nonprofit sector.
鈥淭he National Urban League has been a partner with us for all but the first year of the program,鈥� said , assistant director of experiential learning in Adelphi鈥檚 .
Community Fellows, which began in 2010, placed 60 students at nonprofit organizations last summer. Goulbourne said she is considering work toward a Ph.D. in Education after an internship experience that may well have been life changing.
鈥淚f I could be in the Community Fellows Program every year, I would definitely go for it,鈥� she said. 鈥淵ou learn so much about yourself. One thing I learned is that I鈥檓 the only person who can limit myself, and I鈥檓 definitely not going to limit myself.鈥�
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