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Ep 20: Claire Bednarski

Claire Bednarski goes to the Ohio State University and is a senior studying international relations, diplomacy, public policy and Spanish. Claire has been in the DME internship for two years and has risen through the ranks to now hold the position of co-Social Media ELT where she manages social media content for the VA’s social …

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Ep 19: Priyanka Paudel

Priyanka Paudel is a sophomore at Montgomery Community College in Maryland and is majoring in business administration. At the DME internship, Priyanka is currently a part of the Borne the Battle Podcast where she is working as a transcriptionist. Some of her interests include telecommunications, radio, media and starting a new podcast in the future. …

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Ep 18: Parker Davis

Parker Davis is a DME intern with the External Affairs Department and is also a senior studying international studies and political science at Virginia Military Institute where he is involved in a wide variety of different clubs and organizations. His responsibilities in External Affairs involve taking on projects or overloads from other departments in the …

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Ep 17: Luna Chen

Luna Chen is a web development intern pursing a Bachelor of Science degree in data science and mathematics at Northeastern University for next fall and is currently taking a gap year this year. Her gap year has proven to be very productive, using her time to work as a STEM intern at a philanthropic education …

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Ep 16: Erin Gallagher

Erin Gallagher is a senior sociology major at Beloit College and is currently an intern at two internships: one with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as a graphic design division officer, and the other at the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office in Janesville, Wisconsin. Erin splits her time between schoolwork, her internships and at …

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Ep 15: Ella Joaquin

Ella Joaquin is a podcast transcription intern on the Borne the Battle podcast team. Ella is currently a sophomore at Loyola University Chicago where she majors in economics and information systems and minors in math. She is interested in a career in the foreign service and opportunities in data analytics and consulting. Ella has recently …

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Ep 14: Shannon Moran

For this episode of the DME Intern Podcast, we are joined by our host, Shannon Moran, who will be stepping into the guest’s shoes to be interviewed about the reasons she joined the Digital Media Engagement Internship (DME) Program and some of the interesting things she likes to share with us about her experience running …

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Ep13: Dominique Ramirez

Dominique Ramirez is responsible for beginning the DME Intern Podcast, and he works in the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs and is the Intern Program Manager on the Digital Media Engagement team, working mostly as a Public Affairs Specialist and in technology on the VA website. Dom had also spent …

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Ep12: Atifa Hoque

Atifa Hoque is a longtime veteran of the DME Internship, spending two years as a social media intern in her first year and executive leadership team intern for social media in her second year. Atifa had originally selected three other internships to apply to before receiving an email from Dom Ramirez, the program head manager …

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Ep11: Catherine Del Fierro

Catherine Del Fierro goes to Cal Poly Pomona and is a business administration major with a concentration in business management and human resources; she has also worked as a background investigator, running background checks for clients. In the future, Catherine hopes to work at a company with a thriving work environment but ultimately wants to …

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