How This Student Uses Her Digital Learning Internship to Prepare For a Career of Service

Alicia Robinson’s role as a fall 2025 Every Learner Everywhere intern is her latest step toward a career connecting people to high-quality education and other opportunities they need for successful and fulfilling lives.

“I’m the type of person who has to know what I’m going to do,” says Robinson, a junior at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia. “There’s a lot I want to do, and it’s all going to impact the community.”

The daughter of pastors, Robinson plans to one day start a nonprofit organization in Atlanta that partners with churches to focus on human rights. Together, they would help people find assistance in education, legal aid, housing, job and food security, and immigration.

“I was praying on what I wanted to do,” Robinson says, “and this just kind of came to me as a way to be able to combine all of it together while still serving the community and being under the church and my faith.”

Robinson tailors each of her academic and professional moves to fit that long-term goal.

AI for education access

As one of five fall 2025 Every Learner digital learning interns, Robinson now is studying how artificial intelligence can make education more accessible.

She applied for the role after learning about it from a mentor, who recognized it as the perfect opportunity for someone who regularly uses AI and is driven to help level the playing field in education. Robinson relies on AI to help her complete educational and professional tasks such as planning and editing.

“I just want to educate people on the best ways to use AI efficiently in education and in life,” Robinson says, “including marginalized communities who may not know how to use AI in their day-to-day lives.”

Robinson and her colleagues began their internship by examining the ways educators and students currently are employing AI—and discussing the broad range of opinions about AI’s use to complete classwork. The group’s work will contribute to efforts to identify ways that AI can make education more readily available to all students.

Preparing for the future

Robinson has embarked on a variety of other educational and professional endeavors that will help her pursue her dream of establishing a nonprofit. Her interest in providing immigration assistance, for example, is rooted in a childhood spent in a Spanish immersion program that taught her a second language and exposed her to other cultures.

“I’ve been studying Spanish since kindergarten, and I became friends with a lot of people of that culture,” she says. “I think that’s why it’s a bigger part of me than it would be for somebody who doesn’t really know it personally.”

Majoring in business administration with a concentration in management at Clark Atlanta is informing Robinson’s future as an organizational leader, and she plans to earn a law degree.

Additionally, she recently became a real estate agent in Atlanta to learn about entrepreneurship, negotiation, and community engagement while also pursuing her degree. She has already closed her first deal.

“I decided to go into real estate because one of the sectors of my nonprofit is going to be low-income housing,” Robinson says. “So, I just put it as part of my plan, and I executed it.”

Robinson is a coach for others at Clark Atlanta who want to earn their real estate licenses, and works part time as a human resources coordinator for Atlanta Botanical Garden. She manages her work and academic commitments with the help of digital learning, with much of her classwork conducted online.

“I don’t know how I’d be able to handle everything if it was all in person,” Robinson says, “so I’m happy that’s not my testimony.”

Robinson has found other ways to prepare for a future as a nonprofit leader in her collaboration with the other interns, who represent a variety of backgrounds and cultures, and in the Every Learner Everywhere materials, which are inspiring her as she builds her own real estate website.

“I just want to be able to learn, to be able to add my ideas,” she says. “But also learn from other perspectives.”