Internships Supported by the Marshall Weinberg Fellowship Program
About the Program
The Marshall Weinberg Fellowship Program is designed for SNRE students interested in a professional development internship. Weinberg internship funding can be used to support internships that take place in the US and internationally. Students must be in good academic standing to apply. Preference will be given to students who have never had a professional experience in their field of study. Funding amounts are typically $2,500 per student.
How to Apply
Marshall Weinberg Fellowship Program applications are due on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. We are now accepting applications. To view what is required to apply, click Apply Now to view the application materials.
Previous Internships Supported by the Weinberg Program
 Christopher Theriot Christopher Theriot interned with the World Wildlife Fund in Indonesia.
Alexandria Teague interned with the National Wildlife Federation, Great Lakes Office.
Anna Ruszaj interned with the Alliance for the Great Lakes, spending seven weeks with this advocacy NGO based in Chicago, IL.
Jasmine Jieru Zhang interned with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Berlin, Germany.
 Jennifer Young Jennifer Young interned with the Food System Economic Partnership.
Kensuke Mori interned with the Institute for Fisheries Research.
.thumbnail110w.jpg "Monique Toubia") Monique Toubia Monique Toubia, a recent graduate of SNRE, participated in a three month long internship with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Shilpy Singh interned with Quality Behavioral Health, Inc.
 Tao Zhang Tao Zhang interned with the Poyang Lake Ecological Environment and Resource Development Program.
 Elizabeth Nellums Elizabeth Nellums organized the volunteer teams for the Bioreserve Assessments. She also spent time in the field conducting assessments herself. She organized the data that was collected.
Michelle Martinez worked with the Sierra Club Environmental Justice Chapter in Detroit to investigate the cumulative health impacts of industrial pollution on human health.
Katie Pethan spent summer 2008 in Madagascar, working on a USAID Eco-Regional Initiatives project concerning invasive species management and the question of the invasiveness of Jatropha curcas in the New Protected Areas (NAPs) of the Ranomafana-Andringitra Corridor. Her home base was in Fianarantsoa, at the DAI / ERI USAID office.
At WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Beth Herz worked to empower residents of Harlem to influence environmental policy decisions that affect their lives.
Through Lauren Pidot's Weinberg Fellowship, she was able to spend the summer working with two Belize-based NGOs focused on ecosystem-based management of coastal resources.
 Lynn Kalfsbeek Lynn Kalfsbeek co-managed the Bioreserve Program.
Mike Sintetos was given a wide variety of tasks during his internship with LCV, including: 1) making calls and distributing materials to congressional offices; 2) writing a policy memo advising LCV on an issue; 3) contributing to LCV's blog; 4) attending strategy meetings with the greater environmental community; and 5) working on LCV's Envrionmental Scorecard. He also made valuable contacts with members of other national environmental organizations.
 Joel Howrani Heeres In this internship, Joel Heeres completed a number of activities. He helped analyze potential strategies and wrote portions of the City of Detroit's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant applications. He also coordinated the logistics of various subcommittee meetings of the Green Task Force of Detroit City Council. He attended numerous meetings as a representative of the office, both participating and at time presenting about the activities of the office to fellow government employees, private citizens, and representatives of private companies.
In this internship Eric Kravitz analyzed and evaluated existing practices for reporting environmental data in corporate sustainability/responsibility reports. He also gained expertise measuring various indicators of environmental performance, and managing this data within an existing database. Eric Kravitz also worked on a case study of electronic waste and corporate disposal practices.
 Christian Runge Christian Runge did community design work for Ecocity Builders and the Village Bottoms Community Development Corportation. He learned a lot of technical and design skills, and a lot about politics and race issues related to urban land development.
 Nicholas Deyo In the Summer of 2009 Nick Deyo worked for Five Valleys Land Trust (FVLT) in Missoula, MT, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of opens space, working agricultural lands, and wildlife habitat on private lands in Western Montana.
 Natalie at a ACES Rally on Capital Hill Natalie Flynn assisted in the creation of a new program to advocate for states to implement climate change into State Wildlife Action Plans.
Josh Stacy interned with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, DC.
 Lani Leuthvilay Lani's Internship Summary:
For my internship, I worked at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London, England. Kew is a public organization dedicated to the conservation of wild plant and fungi species with research aimed at understanding the variety of plants and fungi worldwide.
 Heather Briggs In this internship Heather Briggs worked with farmers, and non-profits to design pollinator habitat in blueberry farms in Massachusetts. Heather enjoyed the research that was involved as it helped her learn native plants of the east and allowed her to facilitate between growers, scientists and nonprofit employees.
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