Back to Fletcher from…
Students taking pre-session courses are here and other new students will arrive for Orientation on August 28. But returning students don’t need to be back on campus until Tuesday, September 5. They’ll be coming back to Fletcher from a mapful of different locations. Here’s the map!
Some of those pins severely understate the number of students in a location. For example, in New York, students are pursuing internships at:
Asia Society Policy Institute
Bank of America
CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund
The Global Impact Investing Network (“The GIIN”)
International Rescue Committee
NATO Allied Command Transformation
Pfizer
Scholastic
SWAT Equity Partners
United Nations (Conference on Trade and Development; Women, Peace and Security Unit; Global Compact)
World Economic Forum
In Washington, DC, students can be found at:
Aid to Artisans
Ashoka
Center for Strategic and International Studies – Americas Program
Embassy of Nepal
Girl Effect
Government Accountability Office
J.E. Austin Associates
Latino Victory Project
Metis Strategy
Millennium Challenge Corporation
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)
National Defense University
Relief International
Securing Water for Food
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll)
United Nations Information Center, Washington
U.S. Department of Defense, OSD Policy
U.S. Department of State
WeConnect International
World Bank
Besides New York and Washington, DC, the largest cluster of interning students can be found nearby in Boston/Cambridge at:
Blue Water Metrics
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Conflict Dynamics International
EcoLogic Development Fund
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
State Street Global Advisors
U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution
War on the Rocks
Wave Equity Partners
Somewhat surprisingly, the next largest cluster is in Kigali, Rwanda!
Aegis Trust / Kigali Genocide Memorial
African Entrepreneur Collective (AEC)
Inkomoko Entrepreneur Development
RONKOS
There are organizations with many interns in different locations. For example, the U.S. Department of State. Besides HQ in Washington, DC, interns can be found in Bangkok, Thailand; Lima, Peru; Mexico City, Mexico; San Salvador, El Salvador; Santiago, Chile; and Skopje, Macedonia. International Rescue Committee interns can be found in Kampala/Yumbe, Uganda and New York. Danish Refugee Council interns can be found in Athens, Greece; Maiduguri, Nigeria; Nairobi, Kenya; and Yola, Nigeria.
We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone back and learning about their adventures this summer, wherever they may be returning from!
(A final word of thanks to the students who coordinated the collection of all this information in an informal survey.)