CLAS Undergraduate Internship Awardees

Monica Miller Walsh Internship Grant Awardees

Thanks to a generous gift renewal from Stanford alumna Monica Miller Walsh and her husband, David Walsh, CLAS is able to support undergraduate internships in Latin America.

2024-25

Joaquin de la Luz Abarca

  • Location: Curitiba, Brazil
  • Organization: Department of Innovation for the State of Parana
2023-24

Galia Santana-Oikawa

  • Location: Mexico
  • Organization: Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana (ORU)

Ronak Shetty

  • Location: Brazil
  • Organization: Iscicle
2022-23

Angelique Charles-Davis

  • Location: Chile
  • Organization: SUMMA

VinhHuy Le

  • Location: Argentina
  • Organization: Puerta 18

Vivian Sheperd-Mayen

  • Location: Costa Rica
  • Organization: United Planet
2021-22

Anna Perronne

  • Location: Guayaquil, Ecuador
  • Organization: Paz y Esperanza (Peace and Hope) 
2020-21

Ignacio Blanco Valera

  • Location: Guanacaste, Costa Rica (virtual)
  • Organization: Nampuma Naki NGO 

Nancy Lopez-Alvarez 

  • Location: Mexico (virtual)
  • Organization: Fundación del Empresariado Sonorense, A.C. (FESAC)

Mercedes Thompson 

  • Location: Mexico (virtual)
  • Organization: Aerobotany Project
2019-20

Kelsey Hope Carido

  • Location: El Salvador
  • Organization: Cristosal (virtual)

Xochitl Longstaff

  • Location: Mexico
  • Organization: Al Otro Lado (virtual)

Sierra F. Wells

  • Location: Colombia
  • Organization: Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz
2018-19

Paloma Moreno Jimenez

  • Location: Lima, Peru
  • Organization: Encuentros SJS

Gianna Nino

  • Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Organization: Puente a La Salud Comunitaria

Hannah Smith 

  • Location: Bogota, Colombia
  • Organization: MOVICE
2017-18

Jennifer Ampey

  • Location: Texas, U.S.A
  • Organization: Hope Border Institute
2016-17

Eric Cuevas 

  • Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Organization: Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina

Logan Posey

  • Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Organization: D’or

Sarah Goodman

  • Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Organization: Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC)
2015-16

Madeleine Bouton

  • Location: Bluefields, Nicaragua
  • Organization: blueEnergy

Samuel Garcia

  • Location: Bluefields, Nicaragua
  • Organization: blueEnergy

Cory Herro

  • Location: Trujillo, Peru
  • Organization: Supporting Kids in Peru (SKIP) 

Pessoa-Trejos Internship Grant Awardees

Thanks to a generous gift renewal from Stanford alumna Ana Pessoa-Trejos and her husband, Raul Trejos, CLAS is able to support undergraduate internships and graduate field research in Brazil.

2023- 24

Sehaj Kaur

  • Location: Brazil
  • Organization: Instito Igarape
2022-23

Sofia Penglase

  • Location: Brazil
  • Organization: Instituto Trabalho Decente (ITD) and Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab (HTDL)

Sierra Wells

  • Location: Brazil
  • Organization: Instituto Trabalho Decente (ITD)
2020-21

Isabel Calero Forero

  • Location: Brazil (virtual)
  • Organization: Fundação Getulio Vargas - Center for Social Policy
2018-19

TJ Edgar Francisco 

  • Location: Altamira, Brazil
  • Organization: Instituto Socioambiental
2017-18

Carlos Eduardo Escobar

  • Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Organization: Fundação Roberto Marinho-Canal Futura

Jessica Magallón

  • Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Organization: Fundação Roberto Marinho-Canal Futura
2016-17

Noam Shemtov

  • Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Organization: Marinho
2015-16

Graziella Camata

  • Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Organization: 2016 Olympics

Ari Marcus

  • Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Organization: 2016 Olympics