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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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
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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Sarah Concepcion is the Co-Department Head of the writing department at the DME Internship. Sarah got her bachelor’s degree in English at George Mason University in Virginia and is currently working on getting her master’s degree in History. Sarah finds the changes from the pandemic not detrimental to having a community with other interns and
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Guillermo Osorio is a DME writing intern from San Antonia, Texas. Guillermo was in the Marine Corps and Army from 2008-2009, and was also awarded the Army Achievement Award, Army Commendation Medal, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal and the National Defense Service Medal. Guillermo found out about the DME Internship through his
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This is Sarah Kowalewski’s second year with the DME internship as a graphic design intern. Sarah’s interest in veterans began when a family friend, who served in the Vietnam War and had dealt with PTSD, inspired Sarah to take the first step to helping veterans. Her job as a graphic design intern involves creating #VeteranOfTheDay,
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Ivan Shires is a senior that studies Computer and Information Systems and minors in Digital Data Storytelling at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. As a web analytics intern at the DME internship program, Ivan’s daily tasks include making the DME Interns website run better by improving the accessibility for users, checking the content
Alexys Santiago is a second-year student at Gallaudet University, a private university for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing in Washington, D.C. Santiago is currently majoring in public health and is considering becoming an audiologist or researcher when she enrolls in graduate school. Santiago is part of the research team at the
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Elizabeth Manriquez is a first-year intern with the DME program and is part of the Born to Battle podcast transcription team. For Elizabeth, transcription is very “relaxing” and “meditative” compared to her college classes. In high school, Elizabeth was the Salutatorian for her graduating class during the pandemic and remembers the strange graduation she had
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Latesha Thornhill is a researcher and fact-checker at the DME internship. Latesha is from a military family and learned the importance of critical thinking and ethical, accurate storytelling from her father who was a Navy veteran. Majoring in Philosophy, Political Science and East Asian Studies led Latesha to join the research/fact-check team with the Virtual
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