The Shepherd Alliance supports students in summer work with agencies that seek to benefit impoverished members of society. Each summer, approximately fifty students are selected from around the nation to learn first-hand about the multiple dimensions of poverty in the United States by working for agencies that strengthen impoverished communities and assist poor persons to participate more fully in society. These agencies are located in urban and rural sites throughout the Eastern United States, and serve the educational, healthcare, legal, housing, psychological, social, and economic needs of individuals and their communities.
Middlebury College has been participating in this internship program since 2005. Each summer ACE works with the Career Services Office and a faculty review committee to select two Middlebury students to attend.
Application Information:
Please check back later for 2009 internship information and applications.
Previous Interns:
2008:
Robert McKay ('09) worked at The Food Project, an organization based in and around Boston, MA that hires youth from all parts of Boston and the North Shore to work growing vegetables using sustainable methods, which is sold and distributed to farmers markets, and hunger relief organizations in the area.
Hannah Rabinovitch ('09) worked at Rockbridge Area Hospice, a non-profit medical organization in Lexington, VA that provides physical, emotional and spiritual care for terminally ill people and their families throughout Rockbridge County.
2007:
Rayna Rogowsky ('09) worked at HomeAgain, an organization in Richmond, VA that provides emergency shelter and transitional housing for the area’s men, women, children and veterans who have no place to live. Click here to watch Rayna's presentation on her internship experience.
Emer Feighery ('09) worked at the Codman Square Health Center, a clinic in Dorchester, MA which provides medical, dental, and educational services designed to improve the physical, mental and social well-being of the surrounding community. Click here to watch Emer's presentation on her internship experience
Tarrah Bowen ('08) worked at Baltimore-based PACT: Helping Children with Special Needs, which serves young children with medical and developmental challenges. Click here to watch Tarrah's presention on her internship experience.
2006:
Marie Lucci ('08) was stationed at Rockbridge Area Social Services in Lexington, Virginia.
Rachel Sommer ('06) worked with legal advocates at the House of Ruth Domestic Violence Legal Clinic in Baltimore, Maryland, an organization which provides counseling, shelter, and legal services to victims of domestic violence.
2005:
Rachael Fong ('07) with Cabin Creek Health Center in Dawes, West Virginia.
Welcker Taylor ('06) interned for the department of public advocacy in London, Kentucky.