Elizabeth Zanzinger

Elizabeth was hired by Project SCOUT in to assist in their outreach to seniors. Her main project was helping low income seniors with their tax returns...

Veronica Martinez

Veronica is a junior from College Nine majoring in Community Studies with a minor in Legal Studies. She enjoys working with youth who are active in their communities and wants to help youth from all social locations see college as an option in their futures...

Brittney Roberts

Before Brittany began searching for her internship, she thought about the qualities she knew would help her in being a valuable addition to an organization. Her ability to listen, organize, pay attention to detail, and learn quickly, as well as her desire to be a part of something larger than herself, made her a perfect candidate for the Santa Cruz Aids Project...

Sara Thompson

Sara made a difference. She founded the educaitonal internship program, recruiting students, training them into schools to education youth about environmental issues related to organic farming...

Min Ji Kim

Although Min Ji did not have marketing background or strong experience with marketing, she had various work experiences that involved retail, customer service, teamwork, communication, and management. These qualities provided a strong foundation ...

Victoria Cunningham

Victoria Cunningham is a second year student who plans to major in legal studies and sociology. Though her dream is to go to law school and become a public interest lawyer, she has always had a passion for working with youth...

Sarah Nelson

Before starting to work as the Outreach Intern at the Santa Cruz Hostel, Sarah Nelson had previous experience organizing events for her Youth Group. This was useful for landing the position. Being outgoing and motivated to getting people involved were qualities she had used in the past to make earlier events a success, and she would continue to use those qualities in her internship...

Sabrina Sahlstrom

Sabrina is currently studying Marine Biology and plans to pursue a career in her field doing research and teaching children about marine conservation. To help her towards her goals she got a position as the education outreach intern with Save Our Shores...

Brian Bluestein

True leaders continuously challenge themselves to learn and grow. Recent PTP graduate Brian Bluestein is a testament to this, developing his leadership skills since his youth....

Jake Cummins

The position as Outreach Assistant at Willow Pond Ranch in Soquel, California appeard to be a good match for Jake. At the ranch they practice Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and this was the perfect opportunity for him, since he had known horses his entire life, and is aspiring to one day be a clinical psychologist...

Claudia Lapel

Claudia constantly challenges herself to be as productive and effective as she can; making it natural that she would apply to the Tax Assistance Volunteer internship position with Santa Cruz Community Ventures, where she believed she could make a difference...

Mable Liang

Mabel Liang was an excellent candidate for the Client Intake internship at the Family Service Agency because of her experience and passion for serving...

Kelsey Chandler

Kelsey is a senior at College Eight majoring in Anthropology. Before her internship with the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance of California she had worked for some nonprofit organizations. During her time there she realized that the nonprofit world was one that she wanted to explore further ...

Carlo Wei

As a concerned and devoted member of the UCSC Asian American Pacific Islander community, Carlo applied for the Asian American Pacific Islander Resource Center's (AA/PIRC) internship, because he not only wanted to learn more about his community as a whole, but to build and learn new leadership skills...