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HELP WANTED. WISH GRANTED.

Each year hundreds of Drew students gain practical, tangible experience in the field with the support of an invaluable collection of funded internships, many made possible by the One And All campaign.

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Investing in FuturesDrew’s internship funds extend across the campus, supporting students in the College of Liberal Arts as well as in the Theological School and the Caspersen School.

The One And All campaign, which to date has raised more than $78 million, has bolstered those funds significantly. Donations from alumni and friends have enhanced existing funds, such as the Joseph Patenaude Theatre Internship, and created new ones, such as the Margaret E.L. “Peggi” Howard Internship Fund for Leadership and Service and the College Class of 1960 Internship.

Many of the funds are tailored to help students in particular fields—science or theatre, health care policy or environmental studies, government or journalism, to name a few. Others support students involved in civic engagement, academic research or social justice. The Margaret and Marshall Bartlett Research Fellowship Fund provides funding to Caspersen students for research into historical topics “designed to promote world peace and to prevent terrorism and genocide.” The Thomas D. Sayles, Jr. Internship Award is reserved for students who might otherwise be unable to accept an unpaid internship.

The internship funds can be crucial, says John Warner, an emeritus professor of English in whose honor the John M. Warner Writing Internship was created, “since many internships aren’t paid jobs, which makes it difficult for students to support themselves while interning.”

The internships enable students to explore potential jobs and attain skills far beyond those learned in the classroom. George Hayward, who recently helped establish the College Class of 1960 Internship, notes that interning “can broaden your horizons and may even lead to a whole new career.” His own Drew internship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute led to two summer jobs there that he prizes to this day. Though Hayward later became a university admissions director and fundraiser, the natural sciences remained a lifelong passion.

Through internships, says Margaret “Peggi” Howard, Drew’s former vice president of administration and university relations and the namesake of a new internship fund for leadership and service, “students learn about the world of work—and about the world itself.”

On the following pages we profile seven Drew students and graduates whose internships gave them invaluable on-the-job training.

JOHN DABROWSKI C’12 discovered his passion for music at Drew, where he joined WMNJ, the University’s student-run radio station. Then a series of three internships opened a vista for him onto the music business and the role he might play in it. Those internships, he says, allowed him “to take music as a passion point and transition to a career.”

As a recipient of two Thomas D. Sayles, Jr. Internship Awards and a John M. Warner Writing Internship, Dabrowski interned with three music powerhouses: Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. The experience helped him discover a fascination for developing and pro-moting new musical talent. These days Dabrowski works as a marketing man-ager at Sony’s ’stache media, where he interned as a sophomore.

Genevieve Monty C’15

Monty always wanted to work in advertising, so when she learned about an internship in Fox TV’s marketing department from Drew’s career center, she applied immediately. “The best way to build your résumé is to have names on it that people can recognize,” Monty says.

A recipient of the McEvoy Internship for students interested in media, publishing and communications, Monty understood that experience in marketing would be an asset when interviewing for jobs in advertising. Because the internship was unpaid, the McEvoy funds helped defray the cost of commuting, which involved a train into Manhattan and the subway to Rockefeller Center. “I was able to use my own money for food and school supplies,” she says, “instead of putting it toward the commute.”

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As a political science major at Drew, Hepburn was urged by a professor to get in touch with a local agency or elected body “to make political science live for us.” The experience stayed with her, eventually prompting her to sponsor the internship fund established in her name. The fund, made in part to honor Drew political science professor Robert Smith and his wife, Lois, is designed to support internships involving substantive engagement with the community beyond the campus. “I believe that being immersed in a community activity for a long enough period of time adds immeasurably to your understanding of how a community or a government works,” Hepburn says.

How far can an internship fund go? In just the past few years the Mary Hepburn Internship in Civic Engagement has enabled Drew students to teach art classes to disabled students, aid homeless children, apprentice with a municipal engineering office, work with the Red Cross and assist diplomats at the United Nations.

The Ripple Effect

THE DONOR Mary Hepburn C’54

The internship The Adult School of the Chathams

The job Processing class proposals from instructors in the registration system and editing proofs of the catalog.

My internship helped me view myself as someone who could go into an organization and work independently, helping both the organization and the community it served. I still volunteer there.”

The internship American Red Cross

The job Secretary for the youth services director; helped monitor and coordinate the activities of Red Cross high school clubs throughout the greater New York area.

I not only gained valuable life and business skills like networking and working in an office, but I was also able to become acquainted with the city I once fell in love with as a young teenager.”

The internship GLAAD (formerly known as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)

The job Helping to advance the group’s faith-based initiatives.

The Hepburn Internship program enabled me to discern future plans and take risks in the real world while still being supported by the nurturing Drew community.”

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INTERN Taylor Tracy C’17

INTERN Patrick Keough C’15

INTERN Devyn Lopez C’16

The internship Village of Ridgewood Engineering Division

The job File maintenance and police accident reports, accident mapping, building code inspections, field inspections, public relations, com-munity utility mark-outs, surveying and a budget research project.

I got to experience engineering for a local town, which gave me hands-on experience in a field that I may want to go into in the future.”

INTERN Jeffrey Van Grouw C’17

The internship Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations

The job Assisting diplomats from the Costa Rican Foreign Service.

The internship was a great opportunity for me to learn about the United Nations, how it works and what it’s like to be there as a representative. It’s definitely a place I’d like to work someday.”

INTERN Sofia Madrigal C’14

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Jenna Deslaurier C’16

With a double major in studio art and anthropology, Deslaurier honed her creative skills and gained an important understanding of human interactions. But it was a Mary Hepburn Internship in Civic Engagement with Artists’ Exchange, a Rhode Island nonprofit that offers art classes for people with disabilities, that showed her how she might fuse her two passions professionally. By working with all age groups and people with different levels of ability, she says, “I was able to learn new methods of teaching and realize where my strengths and weaknesses were.”

Deslaurier qualified for the Hepburn stipend because her internship was unpaid and allowed her to have a positive effect on, and engage with, a community outside of Drew. Getting to her internship was a challenge for Deslaurier, since Artists’ Exchange wasn’t accessible by public transportation from her home in Rhode Island. The Hepburn fund covered the cost of a rental car, which helped make the internship possible. Deslaurier says she could have accepted an internship with another organization. “But I had my heart set on Artists’ Exchange for its unique and inclusive approach to the community,” she says.

MORISSA SCHWARTZ C’15 was an English major with a minor in writing when she was awarded a John M. Warner Writing Internship. The fund, which provides English students with stipends that support internships in industries related to writing, allowed Schwartz to work for a semester at Entertainment Weekly in Manhattan. “It sharpened my writing skills and helped me learn a different way of writing, in a different format,” she says. She credits the confidence she gained at the magazine with helping her complete her first book-length work of creative nonfiction, Notes Never Sent, published last year by VIP Ink.

Kean Enables The former president of Drew and governor of New Jersey helped establish three internship funds.

Once a year, Thomas Kean sits down with the recipients of the Thomas H. Kean Government Internship Program to talk about what the interns have done and what their internships meant to them. “And then,” he says, laughing, “we usually end up with a long political discussion.”

Drew’s 10th president and former two-term New Jersey governor is a politician by avocation and a passionate booster of interning. “On-the-job learning, although it’s often totally different from the classroom, is just as valuable,” he says.

Over the past decade, Kean has been instrumental in establishing three internship funds at Drew, to which he is also among the principal donors. The Kean Government Internship is open to political science majors or minors interested in a career in government or public service. It pays a stipend to students participating in an unpaid internship with a government office, political party or candidate, NGO or related organization. Kean also founded the Joseph Patenaude Theatre Internship and was the driving force behind the Margaret E.L. “Peggi” Howard Internship Fund for Leadership and Service. In 2013, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation honored Kean’s political and academic legacy, along with his dedication to experiential learning, by establishing the Thomas H. Kean Internship in Public Policy.

In addition to hands-on experience, Kean says, internships help students choose—or reject—potential career paths and offer invaluable contacts. But they also benefit employers. “These interns bring a great deal to whomever they work for,” he says, “including Drew’s culture and its values.”

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MARVIANNA GRAY C’17 could not shake the sight of the 15-year-old girl holding her 2-year-old daughter. Throughout the summer of 2014, Gray shadowed her former pediatrician, Dr. Edwina Verner, as part of her internship in the East Orange, New Jersey, clinic she had visited as a child. But it wasn’t until Gray saw the teenage girl with her baby that she decided she would one day work in public health. “I realized that people need advocates to help them get health care and health education,” Gray says. “I thought if I were to go to these urban areas and be a sort of mentor, it could probably lessen certain things, like teen pregnancies and the transmission of sexual diseases.”

Gray’s job that summer was made possible by support from the Thomas H. Kean Internship in Public Policy, a fund the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation created in 2013 to honor the former New Jersey governor and Drew’s 10th president.

Working with Verner convinced Gray she could be an advocate for patients—and eventually a pediatrician herself. Now a junior, she plans to apply to medical school after spending several years in public health, and she discusses her plans in a tone that is as decisive as it is practical. “I’d like to manage public health policy for the whole world,” she says. “But I’ll start small, in East Orange.”

Alex Slotkin C’17

A philosophy and English double major, Slotkin spent a semester working at the Street Smart Outreach Program, a nonprofit assisting runaway and vulnerable children and young adults in Morristown, New Jersey. A Mary Hepburn Internship in Civic Engagement covered his transportation costs. Street Smart provides referrals for housing, food, counseling and educational programs to a population at risk of being victimized by human traffickers.

One winter afternoon, Slotkin visited a woman in her 20s and her young daughter, who couldn’t have been older than 10, living illegally in an unheated garage. The experience was disturbing but also illuminating. “It made me realize that it’s important how stories like theirs are told,” he says, “because if an organi-zation doesn’t get its story out accurately, it might not get the funding it needs.” Inspired by the internship and another at a public relations firm specializing in the health care industry, Slotkin now hopes to pursue a job in health care communications. “If it weren’t for my internships,” he notes, “I wouldn’t have known there was a place for me in the PR world.”

Ornella Corsant-Colat C’16

The Robert G. Smith Internship for Experiential Learning funded Corsant- Colat’s internship with Peace Boat, an NGO that promotes a culture of peace. While writing reports on the group’s campaigns, she says, “I became interested in nuclear disarmament, on which I have focused and done extensive research.” Corsant-Colat published an e-book, Nuclear Weapons: Misconceptions, Challenges and Involvement of NGO Peace Boat, in 2015.

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