Insights from Students & Alumni

Insights from Students

Internship Presentations

This YouTube playlist is comprised of videos showing student presentations about their internship experiences as part of the sociology capstone. Below, sorted by semester, are lists of some of the individual students who took the internship capstone course and links to their presentations. Their placement sites are noted so that you can identify particular placements that may be of the most interest to you.

Spring 2023 Internship Cohort

• Jacob Bierstaker ('23) - Loyola Center for Community, Service, and Justice and the York Road Initiative
• Amaya Bullock ('23) - Loyola Office of Equity & Inclusion
• Anna Levine ('23) - GEDCO Cares
• Emma McCann ('23) - TurnUp Activism
• Lauren Miller ('23) - ESP Farm
• Margaret O'Connor ('23) - Living Classrooms Foundation
• Kathleen Staunton ('23) - St. Vincent's Villa

Spring 2022 Internship Cohort

• Riccy Amador ('22) - Asylee Women Enterprise
• Allison Amaya ('22) - Law Offices of Hugo J. Alfaro, Esq.
• Grace Benn ('22) - Leveling the Playing Field
• Lilly Berretta ('22) and Sophie Gad ('22) - Baltimore Witness
• Maeve Clow ('22) - Living Classrooms Foundation
• Leah Daly ('22) - Living Classrooms Foundation
• Eddie Fine ('23) - Living Classrooms Foundation
• Michael L'Etoile ('22) - The Borgen Project
• Carli Tyson ('22) - Thread
• Mackenzie Wright ('22) - Baltimore Witness

Internship Highlights

Multiple Sociology students have filled internship placements at Baltimore Witness, a news site that provides transparency on violent crime cases in the city by collecting data on cases, reporting on court proceedings, and conducting interviews. These students each published several stories.

• Sara Palmer ('24)
• Destiny Rodriguez ('24)
• Nea James ('23)
• Lilly Berretta ('22)
• Sophie Gad ('22)
• Mackenzie Wright ('22)

Insights from Alumni

This YouTube playlist is comprised of videos showing individual presentations and question/answer sessions by Loyola Sociology alumni at our annual Career Nights.

Below is a list of the individual presenters at Loyola Sociology's Career Nights. Their job titles at the time of presentation are noted so that you can identify which videos may be of most interest to you based on your career and/or graduate school aspirations.

• Molly Cioffi ('16) - Associate Attorney at Shulman Rogers
• Matt DiFerdinando ('14) - Asylum and Removal Defense Staff Attorney at HIAS Pennsylvania
• Valerie Meros ('13) - Licensed Clinical Social Worker for the PACT Program at Kennedy Krieger Institute
• Sarah Carta Samuel ('09) - Communications Advisor at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
• Emily Delany ('15) - Academic Advisor and Special Programs Coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania
• Conor Skelton ('17) - Senior Surveillance Epidemiologist at General Dynamics
• Jim Zabora ('73) - Social Work & Public Health
• Ashley Biggs ('08) - Chief of Staff at Paterson Habitat for Humanity
• Ciara Ginley ('13) - Clinical Social Worker at McLean Hospital
• Dominic Walker ('13) - Sociology Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant at the Center for Understanding Race and Education at Columbia University
• Katie League ('05) - Case Manager at St. Vincent de Paul Society of Baltimore, Inc.
• Mark ('08) - Technical Analyst in Federal Law Enforcement
• Justin White ('09) - Theology and Psychology Teacher at Loyola Blakefield