Intern Scholars

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  2010 Intern Scholars

  
  
  

  Florian Minzlaff

  
  

  Florian is a student at the University of Gastronomic Sciences (UniSG) founded by the Slow Food Foundation in Pollenzo, Italy where he is studying sustainable food production, small scale agriculture, and trying to integrate the Slow Food idea into development policy and practice.

  Florian was born in Berlin, Germany, where he graduated from high school and completed a voluntary service in cultural heritage management during which he conducted archaeological excavations and surveillance of construction sites for the local district building authority. Florian has also been involved in church-based youth work for the past eight years, where he served as a youth counselor, mediator and member of the executive board of the youth committee.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2008-2009 Intern Scholars

  
  
  

  Marissa Dondoe

  

  Marissa Dondoe is currently pursuing a M.A. in International Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies concentrating on International Policy and International Economics. Prior to that, she worked for Triage Consulting Group, a San Francisco-based healthcare consulting firm where she was a chair of the social responsibility squad.

  Marissa received her B.A. in Economics and International Area Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. During her time there, Marissa was an intern-consultant for Resolution Economics and Success Inc, a youth education and outreach center. She has also volunteered at the Raphael House shelter in San Francisco as well as the L’Aquilone daycare center in Florence, Italy.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Sophie Young

  

  Sophie Young currently works on trade policy and community-led research. She focuses on research, education, and collaborative organizing for self-determination and structural change. She has worked with Youth UpRising, Hesperian Foundation, Bay Area Katrina Solidarity Network, and Democracy Matters. For several years, she also worked as an educator and assistant in domestic violence agencies, at the Family Violence Law Center and a Houston-area women's shelter.

  Sophie completed undergraduate studies in International Development and Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, where she studied cultural change and formation, land use, political-economic history, coloniality, and medical anthropology.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2007 Intern Scholars

  
  
  

  Katherine Clements

  Katherine Clements is pursuing a M.A. in International Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies concentrating on International Law and Organizations. She spent the first year of the program in Bologna, Italy, where she worked for Human Rights Nights, an arts and music festival dedicated to human rights.

  She received her B.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University. During her undergraduate studies, Katherine worked for local environmental organizations in community organizing and outreach. After graduating, Katherine worked for the San Francisco-based NGO International Development Exchange (IDEX) and the Amnesty International USA Film Festival. She spent the beginning of 2006 in Chiapas, Mexico working with an indigenous women's weaving cooperative and development organization, K'inal Antzetik.
  
  
  
  
  

  Emily Felt

  Emily has spent the past seven years working on social justice and human rights issues. In 2003 she spent a year as a volunteer in Mexico with Peace Brigades International (PBI) accompanying human rights defenders. Since then she has worked with several human rights organizations including Doctors Without Borders in Spain, Health Strategies International in San Francisco and Global Justice in Rio de Janeiro.

  Emily is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Public Policy at UC Berkeley, where she has focused on international issues of global poverty. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently.
  
  
  
  
  

  Sonal Mittal

  Sonal Mittal is an undergraduate studying Economics and Computer Science at Stanford University. Her areas of interest broadly include trade policy and development studies. At Stanford, Sonal has completed award-winning research on the living wage policy. Her efforts also helped secure a change in the university’s wage policy for contracted workers.

  Read 2005 G8 Summit at Gleneagles: Repercussions on the African Continent, Sonal's Assignment Paper at The Oakland Institute.
  
  
  
  
  

  Jonathan Stewart

  Jonathan Stewart is master’s student in health policy at the University of California, San Francisco, where his areas of interest include health inequities, violence against women, and the construction of health as a human right. He has a juris doctor from the University of Tulsa College of Law with certificates in health law and public policy. He has studied bioethics and children’s rights in Europe and comparative law in China.

  Jonathan has worked with such diverse groups as torture survivors, disabled elders, and the homeless mentally ill. Prior to settling in the Bay Area, he worked as an RN in trauma centers and emergency rooms on both coasts, in the Midwest, and in his native Alaska.