Spring 2012 Interns

 

Amy Callahan is a senior at USD majoring in International Relations.  She has studied abroad at the Universidad ORT Montevideo in Uruguay, and traveled to 18 nations with Semester at Sea. During Fall 2011, Amy interned at Trans-Border Institute, where she wrote blog entries, event summaries, book reports, documentary reviews and interviews, and organized and attended Trans-Border Institute events, including a lecture by Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne and Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa.  Since 2009 she has worked as a desk assistant and tutor at USD’s Writing Center.  She has also done community service with International Rescue Committee in San Diego, working with high school students from Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Afghanistan; and with International Volunteer Headquarters at San Gabriel School in Cuzco, Peru.  Amy is proficient in Spanish.

Alexandra Copper has a B.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University, received December 2009.  She is currently working at the Plover Group, Inc., as a biological monitor, monitoring and banding two species of endangered birds.  She has also worked at the Plover Group as a research assistant, conducting research on the breeding patterns of endangered bird species and the guidelines for natural habitat preservation, and as a volunteer for the San Diego Country Democratic Party.  Through Reach Out: Yale Partnership for International Service, Alexandra organized and led a service trip to Kathmandu, Nepal, working with the nongovernmental organization, Volunteer Society Nepal. On a separate trip, she also taught English as a Second Language in a Buddhist monastery in Kathmandu.  Alexandra has also serviced through Reach Out in the Republic of Georgia, India and Bulgaria, and participated in a high school service trip to South Africa.  She is proficient in Russian and Latin.  

Corina López-Ramos is a USD senior majoring in Sociology and Spanish with a minor in Gender Studies.  She studied in the ITESO – Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara during summer 2010.  At USD, Corina is a participant in the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, for which she wrote and presented a study entitled, “The Discourse of Human Rights in Relation to Mexico’s Maquiladoras and the Myth of Disposable Women.”  She has been active in USD’s Office of Community Service-Learning, as a CSL/Spanish Program Student Liaison, Youth to College Literacy Program Tutor, and English as a Second Language Tutor.  Corina participated in an immersion trip to El Salvador as a student leader, and has been Community Representative and Programmer for the Association of Chicana Activists. She has also volunteered with Migrant Outreach in conjunction with Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, and participated in Tijuana Spring Breakthrough. Corina is fluent in Spanish.

Alexander Wowra graduated in May 2011 with a B.A. in International Security and Conflict Resolution from San Diego State University.  Since January 2011 he has been working as an executive assistant and chief recruiting officer at Sustainable Comprehensive Humanitarian Assistance Planning, a social business.  Alexander is a German national and completed his civil service at the Johanniter Unfalhilfe e.V. in Viernheim, Germany.  He has worked as an assistant reporter at the economic news desk of the New Nation Times Newspaper in Accra, Ghana, and as an intern at C.A.M.P. TV in Munich. Alexander also interned at the Uplands School of Penang in Malaysia, where he served as an assisting primary school teacher.  In 2010 he studied and did community service in Tanzania; took a course on international relations at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and studied Spanish in the Universidad Interamericana in Heredia, Costa Rica. In addition to English and German, Alexander speaks Spanish, French, and some Kiswahili and Indonesian.