By: Anika Bull, CAS ’21 Association de Lutte Contre le Sida – Rabat, Morocco Wandering through the streets of Rabat, my roommate and I, both blonde students speaking to each other in German or English, clearly stood out as foreigners. Whether it was our first day in Morocco or five weeks into our program, we…
By: Louisa Cacchione, Wharton ’22 Louisa (right) horseback riding on a weekend trip to Mendoza AccelOne – Buenos Aires, Argentina The overarching reason for my interest in the Global Research Internship Program (GRIP) was simple. By participating in the program I hoped to gain knowledge within one of my intended fields of study through firsthand…
By: Briana Carvalho, CAS ’21 Volta Branding Studio – Porto, Portugal When applying to GRIP, my intention was to gain a unique cultural perspective and improve my Portuguese. My program, titled Wine Production in Porto, did not come with a job description. Despite this, my motivation to spend the summer in Portugal was sufficient to…
By: Merry Gu, CAS ’21 Jossour Forum des Femmes Marocaines – Rabat, Morocco Morocco is perhaps best known for being a melange of diverse cultures, where Berber, Arabian, European, West African, and Sephardi Jewish influences are present in each city’s traditional cuisine, architecture, and attire. Language is no exception; my daily walk to work is…
By: Sardar Asfandyar Cheema, Wharton ’21 Ashoka – Mexico City, Mexico I always find it interesting to see what motivates a person or a group of people to come together and work towards a common goal. At Impact Hub Mexico, the co-working space where Ashoka is located, there are at least 10 non-profits working on…
By: Beverly Deng, Wharton ’21 Beverly (left) on a visit to Tiananmen Square Diversified Agency Services (DAS) – Shanghai, China I was born in Glendale, California in 1999 to a Chinese father and Taiwanese mother. Considering the overwhelming majority of my school district was Asian-American like me, my childhood seemed relatively normal. I grew up spending my…
By: Xavier Lee, SEAS ’22 Xavier (third from right) with members of the Cadence team enjoying lunch in a yurt Cadence Translate – Beijing, China On my first day of work, I’m taking the elevator up to the seventh floor of the office building where my company, Cadence Translate, resides. The doors open up to…
By: Shreya Naraparaju, CAS ’22 GRIP Interns hiking in the Blue Mountains, left to right: Sophie Shen, Mercedes Owens, Ryan Bush, and Shreya Naraparaju University of Sydney, Australia Interning abroad in Sydney, Australia has allowed me to gain a plethora of new experiences, both inside and outside the workplace. I tried a meat pie for…
By: Corey Parker, Wharton ’21 Corey on a visit to Cueva del Esplendor while traveling in Colombia Nextentia – Medellín, Colombia My current internship in Medellín is at a start-up called Nexentia that works to provide calcium encapsulation products to a range of clients both human and animal. Nexentia is a small subdivision of the greater…
By: Stephanie Xie, Wharton ’21 Stephanie Xie (left) with fellow Penn student and summer intern, Vashvi Shah, at the Alibaba Cloud Summit KK Fund – Singapore In my first few weeks of work, I have attended four conferences, three demo days, and countless hawker centers…in short, my internship experience so far has been filled with opportunities to talk…