During my internship, my confidence in my creative and communicative skills greatly increased. Writing copy, informational campaigns, and personal messages for a wide variety of stakeholders and on a wide range of platforms (from Medium to Handshake to Eventbrite) has increased the range of my professional writing experience. I also learned (at least partly through mistakes) some important new lessons about video and website design and marketing through the web. These skills and experience will stand me in good stead when it comes to applying to creative and communication roles in the future. Because of DataEthics4Alls diverse fields of operations, I have also learned more about the fields of AI, data ethics, education activism, and recruitment. I would particularly recommend this internship experience to anyone interested in charitable work and activist enterprise, but also to anyone interested in social sustainability, technology, and - of course - data ethics.
DEBRA Third Year Undergraduate (of a four year course), BA Litterae Humaniores, A mixture of in-person and remote working
Work Projects I worked as a Fundraising Intern at DEBRA over the summer vacation for a month. DEBRA is a charity that helps people live with EB, an incurable skin condition that causes blistering and pain; DEBRA also hopes to eventually find a cure for this disease. As a fundraising intern, my job was to research potential major donors (people likely to give over 5000) and see if they had the propensity, and ability to donate such a sum. As such, the job entailed gathering qualitative and quantitative data and formatting it so that it would be easy to read for the head fundraisers. I also had to make reports on potential corporate donors, and research restaurants that would give DEBRA discount meals for auction. In this, I was heavily supported by DEBRAs
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