CGC Virtual Internship Stories

"This Rio Center internship is a great chance to excel and push me out of my local context to approach the global context."

"I have learned how to do market research, overcome language barriers and uncover not-readily-available information."

"I am extremely appreciative of this valuable opportunity to combine my academic interests and affinity for the arts."

"This internship has incentivized me to uncover different dimensions of Columbia previously unbeknownst to me."

I’m from Toronto, Canada and I’m currently completing my Master’s Degree in Global Thought.

Brooke Coskuner is a second-year graduate student, pursuing a Master of Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

MacKenzie Isaac (TC’22) helped prepare publications with Universidad Mayor’s Research Center on Society.

Diego Plaza, CC'23, discusses his work with Professor Ricardo Martínez of Universidad Diego Portales on computational literary analysis of poetry.

Xi Wang, MA'23 GSAS, has worked on the analysis of community property accumulation and transmission in rural families.

Pablo Drake, an astrophysics and history major at Columbia, is performing his global virtual internship with Chile’s Universidad San Sebastián.

Ovais Shah, MS'23 Applied Analytics, participated in not one but two of the global virtual internships offered by the Santiago Center.

Alison Hog, a Barnard College studying sociology, is performing her summer internship with the Transparency Council of Chile.