Daniela Zapata, BYFA:  As a seasonal TA, Daniela helps students learn how to use the basic features of a digital camera around the city of Baltimore as part of workshops. This summer (2018) she is leading a workshop titled “Pictures, Poetry, and Prose.”

Taliah West, intern, YES Drop-In Center: She provided assistance during drop-in hours, input information to the Baltimore Homeless Management Information System, attended resource fairs and other community events as a representative, when necessary. Conducted interviews, filmed, and edited “Faces of YES”, a 20-minute informational video showcasing the organization through its youth, staff, and partners.

Juliet Villegas: Dance Marathon at Johns Hopkins University is a student-run movement dedicated to year-round fundraising for our local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. The event involves dancing 8 hours non-stop for the kids, to make sure they get all the things they need to have a happy childhood, no matter their circumstances.

Eileen Ramirez, CIIP intern (2016): There she helped people at the front desk, filled out paperwork and answered phones. She even worked closely with the nurses, learning how to take vitals. She loved being an English-Spanish interpreter between visiting Hopkins residents and patients. Everyone at the clinic is kind and passionate about their work, Eileen hopes to be the same way once she becomes a physician herself.

Juliana Rico and Danielle Obando, advocates, Health Leads: These hermanas work as advocates at the Children's Medical Practice on the Bayview campus to help connect patients of low socioeconomic and Latinx populations to the basic resources they need to be healthy. Juliana continued working with HL over the summer and worked on an insurance triage project to cut down waiting times for clients.