Meet the 2019 Temple of Understanding Summer Interns!
The Temple of Understanding is excited to welcome our 2019 student interns to New York City and the United Nations!
Read on to meet our interns and learn about the projects they will be pursuing this summer.
Johanna Friman
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text disable_pattern="false" css=".vc_custom_1571647321920{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] My name is Johanna Friman, and I am from Sweden. At the age of sixteen, I was an exchange student in the outback of Australia for a year, and...
Mariano Sigifredo
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571647423706{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] My name is Mariano Sigifredo. I am 20 years old and was born in Córdoba, Argentina. I am studying political science with a focus on comparative and international...
Bora
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571767890217{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Hi! I’m Bora, an 18-year-old from Istanbul, Turkey. Although currently I am a high school senior, this fall I will be a freshman at Georgetown studying International...
Abigail Marcolini
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571768191395{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Hello, my name is Abigail Marcolini! I am currently nineteen years old and anticipating my upcoming sophomore year at UC Berkeley, originally hailing from the desert...
Xenia Jankovich
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text disable_pattern="false" css=".vc_custom_1571768347117{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Hello, my name is Xenia Jankovich. I am 18 years old, and am Dutch, French, Hungarian and Canadian. I just graduated from the American...
Sarah Ahmad
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571768687280{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] My name is Sarah Ahmad. I am 18 years old, and I am from Schaumburg, Illinois. I will be a freshman this fall at New York University’s College of Arts and Science,...
Polina Galieva
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571768880264{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Hi! My name is Polina Galieva. I am 18 years old and a rising freshman at Southern Methodist University. My family is originally from Russia, but I grew up in New York...
Mohammed Amin
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571769083777{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Hi, my name is Mohammed Amin! I also go by Mo! I am currently an incoming freshman at the College of the Holy Cross. Being born and raised in the Bronx, I have been...
Tselmeg Ulammandakh
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571769418811{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Hi! My name is Tselmeg Ulammandakh. I am 18 years old and from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. During a short period in UB, where we had Model United Nations, I would be one of...
Sofia Kwon
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571769558131{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Hi! My name is Sofia Kwon, and I am from West Orange, New Jersey. I just graduated high school, and I will be an incoming freshman at Columbia University next fall. What...
Matias Benitez
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571576949913{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] My name is Matias Benitez. I am eighteen years old and live in New York City, but I spent much of my childhood in Sydney, Australia. I am excited to be a ToU intern at...
Rufus Roby Mathew
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571769783224{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Hello! My name is Rufus Roby Mathew, and I am a 20-year-old third culture kid. My parents are from India, but I was born and raised on the small beautiful island nation...
Willie Freeman
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571769940810{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] My name is Willie Freeman, and I am a 21-year-old rising senior at Cornell University, studying International Agriculture and Rural Development with a minor in...
Lola Jacquin
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1571770083680{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Hello! My name is Lola Jacquin. I am nineteen years old and hail from Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a citizen of the United States, I am French and Austrian. I am...
Hei Kiu
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text disable_pattern="false" css=".vc_custom_1571770364977{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Born and raised in Hong Kong, Hei Kiu is an 18-year-old Chinese-Portuguese philosophy enthusiast with a passion in East Asian politics. She...
Glenys D’Souza
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text disable_pattern="false" css=".vc_custom_1571770477834{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Hi! My name is Glenys D’Souza. I am eighteen years old, and I am from India. I wanted to utilize my long summer break by investing my time...
Maria Helena Rey
I’m Maria Helena Rey. I am 18 years old, from Bogotá, Colombia, and studying Political Science in my hometown. I have grown in a country that despite the fact that it has been named as the happiest one on Earth has a long story of tragedy and injustice that, still...
Semon A. Makar-Zekry
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text disable_pattern="false" css=".vc_custom_1571770619120{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"] Hello! My name is Semon A. Makar-Zekry, and I am an eighteen-year-old Coptic Orthodox Christian from Jersey City, New Jersey. However, I was born...