It is with enthusiasm that I submit my application for a Summer Intern position with Rosie’s Place. I am a second year student at Wellesley College majoring in Peace and Justice Studies and Spanish. I am passionate about empowering and serving disenfranchised communities through education and public policy. For this reason, I would welcome the opportunity to work for a non-profit organization like Rosie’s Place that actively fights to bring social justice through both the personal lives of women as well as through the social structures that perpetuate their marginalization.
To Rosie’s Place, I bring experience working in educational settings with children, parents, teachers, and peers. As a Teaching Assistant for Wellesley Community Children’s Center, I work with preschool children to support their curiosity and promote an enthusiasm for learning and growing. I assist the leading teacher in implementing the daily schedule and promote the daycare’s principles of self-help and growth mindsets. In this role, I …show more content…
As a woman of color and as a student at a women’s college, I have witnessed first hand the institutions, structures, and systems that work against and marginalize women. As a Peace and Justice major with a concentration in Community Development Through Education and Policy, I have insight on how to critically analyze race, class, and gender inequities and how these inequities function in our everyday lives due to systemic and institutional oppression. I am concerned with identifying the factors that deprive women of access to resources and helping women to become agents of their lives; I hope to impact disenfranchised women personally and also through advocacy and public policy. This opportunity would allow me to explore working with at a nonprofit that is also concerned with empowerment on both small and
To Rosie’s Place, I bring experience working in educational settings with children, parents, teachers, and peers. As a Teaching Assistant for Wellesley Community Children’s Center, I work with preschool children to support their curiosity and promote an enthusiasm for learning and growing. I assist the leading teacher in implementing the daily schedule and promote the daycare’s principles of self-help and growth mindsets. In this role, I …show more content…
As a woman of color and as a student at a women’s college, I have witnessed first hand the institutions, structures, and systems that work against and marginalize women. As a Peace and Justice major with a concentration in Community Development Through Education and Policy, I have insight on how to critically analyze race, class, and gender inequities and how these inequities function in our everyday lives due to systemic and institutional oppression. I am concerned with identifying the factors that deprive women of access to resources and helping women to become agents of their lives; I hope to impact disenfranchised women personally and also through advocacy and public policy. This opportunity would allow me to explore working with at a nonprofit that is also concerned with empowerment on both small and