Author: Steven Levy

  We’re excited to have recently been chosen as the winner of the 2021 Innovation in Alumni Engagement Award and are honored to receive this recognition! Since 2006, thousands of students have interned abroad through Connect-123 and learned valuable skills that they’ve used in their subsequent career development. As program graduates, they’ve participated in our […]

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Intern blogger (and now Connect-123 alum), Ashley Nave, is back with more stories about her Barcelona journalism internship. Thanks to the Connect-123 program for finding me one of the coolest internships, I’ve spent the last two months exploring the ins and outs of the city as part of my assignment at a leading publication for […]

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This post comes to us from Ashley Nave, an American student pursuing a degree in English/Professional Writing and Spanish, who is a current intern in Spain. She has an interest in all sorts of writing: magazine writing, journalism, poetry, fiction and hopes to use her degree to document perspectives from other countries as a career and […]

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Buenos Aires Sustainable Development Intern and Michigan State University junior, Alexandra Stano, shares her love of food and culture with us in today’s intern blog post.   I would definitely consider myself a foodie. I especially love cooking and eating foods from other countries because it is a way to experience different traditions and cultures. […]

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Sarah Crockett, an Economics and Spanish major at Duke University, is an economic development intern in Buenos Aires. I know myself pretty well. I know that I am sentimental about the past and that I am a planner for the future. That said, I also know that I want to be the type of person that […]

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Now before you get annoyed at the title of this post, please take a moment to consider what those words might mean, beyond the pop culture connotation. Have you noticed how some people seem to have exciting, adventurous, successful lives while others seem to be living a smaller, more predictable existence? As an executive coach […]

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Christina Koehler, a Nursing major at University of North Carolina, just recently completed a two month long international internship in Buenos Aires. Here she shares her thoughts on fear and change, and eventually hitting your stride in a completely new surrounding. Change. It’s a simple word in theory—only six little letters—but such a powerful concept. […]

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USC graduate student and Cape Town journalism intern Shaleeka Powell shares her experience working with local youth to produce a radio piece about the state of democracy in South Africa. Be the Change You Want to See. Wees om die verandering wat jy wil sien. Yiba lushintsho ofuna ukulubona! Change does not come easy. It is […]

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Connect-123 Human Rights intern Pip Christie has been learning the ins and outs of Buenos Aires for the past four months. She shares with us her experience, and what she’s learned about the city so far. In January 2013 I was in the midst of final year dissertation stresses in the freezing cold winter of […]

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By Guest 18 February 2014 Vanessa Ashley recently spent over 7 months in Buenos Aires – completing an internship, making friends, and getting to know this city that she used to call home. I just finished my seven-month internship in Buenos Aires, which rounds out my total time in this beautiful city to just about […]

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