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My internship in South Africa: VACorps alumni interview with Cornelius Sanford
Meet the amazing Cornelius Sanford, who participated in a human rights law internship in Cape Town with the VACorps program in 2021. Cornelius is an alumnus of the Peace Corps and is the recipient of The Rangel Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard University. The prestigious fellowship will support Cornelius through a two-year master’s degree in an area of relevance to the Foreign Service. Please give [...]
My internship in South Africa: VACorps alumni interview with Emma Vargo
Meet the incredible Emma Vargo, who participated in the VACorps Program in 2019. Emma is currently studying Allied Health with a concentration in medical sciences at the University of Tampa and did her medical internship at a home for chronically ill children. Emma shares some highlights of her experiences in South Africa and Mozambique in the below interview. Why did you decide to participate in the VACorps Program? As someone who [...]
My Internship in South Africa : VACorps alumni interview with Lachlan O’Neill
Meet the amazing Lachlan O'Neill, who participated in the VACorps program in 2019. Lachlan has undergraduate degrees in Law & Government & International Relations from Griffith University in Australia. He participated in a human rights law internship in Cape Town. In this alumni interview, Lachlan shares some of the highlights from his memorable internship experience in South Africa. Why did you decide to participate in the VACorps program? When I finished [...]
My Internship in South Africa : VACorps alumni interview with Rebecca Longman
Meet the amazing Rebecca Longman, who participated in the VACorps program in 2019. Rebecca studies Biopsychology, Cognition, Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, and participated in an internship at a community health clinic in Cape Town. In this alumni interview, Rebecca shares some of the highlights from her internship experience in South Africa. Why did you decide to participate in the VACorps program? I aim to either go to med school [...]
Occupational therapy internship abroad: Mollie Wang
Meet the amazing Mollie Wang, who is currently participating in an occupational therapy internship abroad with VACorps. Mollie is enrolled in the Occupational Therapy Doctorate (ODT) program at Pacific University in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA and expects to graduate later this year. She joined VACorps to complete her paediatric fieldwork rotation and will be living in South Africa until early April. Mollie landed in Cape Town on the 7th of January, 2020 and inadvertently received [...]
Oh the places you’ll go: Rebecca Gibian
Many incredible people have passed through the VACorps internship program since we first started hosting interns in 2006. “Oh the places you’ll go” is a series where our alumni share updates about their careers and life accomplishments. In this latest post, the remarkable Rebecca Gibian (Journalism Internship, 2015), checks in from Brooklyn, New York, where she works as a freelance international journalist. Her work has been published by The Associated Press, VICE, The Atlantic, [...]
Oh the places you’ll go: Brittany McHale
Many incredible people have passed through the VACorps internship program since we first started hosting interns in 2006. “Oh the places you’ll go” is a series where our alumni share updates about their careers and life accomplishments. In this latest post, Brittany McHale (Social work internship in South Africa, 2011), checks in from New York City, where she is a Social Work (LMSW) at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center on the pediatric and adult [...]
