Student Internship Program
The Every Learner Everywhere Student Internship Program began in Spring of 2021 as the Student Fellowship Program. The Fellowship program was a six-month-long, project-based fellowship that enabled Fellows to work on interest and skill-aligned projects and develop meaningful professional relationships with a variety of Every Learner network partners. In Spring of 2023, we launched the Student Internship Program, which will allow us to take on five to eight student interns per year for 12-week terms. The Every Learner internship is both paid and remote.
Every Learner Fall 2025 Student Interns
Shawn Jiminez | Bowdoin College
Shawn Jiminez is a junior at Bowdoin College studying sociology and government. As a rural scholar from West Gardiner, ME, he is dedicated to breaking down systemic barriers.
A nationally recognized changemaker, Shawn currently serves on the youth boards of the League of Women Voters of Maine and NAMI Maine, supports Teach for America as an Ignite Fellow, and organizes with the national education non-profit Class Action. Recently selected as a Harvard Kennedy School Public Policy Leadership Scholar and Campus Compact Rural Youth Voice Initiative Fellow, he is committed to envisioning a future that uplifts underrepresented voices in education and beyond.
Looking ahead, Shawn plans to work at the intersection of education and criminal justice reform. He is excited to support Every Learner Everywhere’s mission of increasing accessibility in the realm of learning through responsible technology use.
Maria Jose Igartua | Mount Holyoke College
Maria is a junior at Mount Holyoke College majoring in Computer Science with a Nexus in Data Analytics and Society. As an international student from Chiapas, Mexico, she’s passionate about technology’s transformative power to drive meaningful change to communities and individuals.
Her leadership is grounded in both user experiences and inclusive innovation. From collaborating with Kode with Klossy in addressing the gender gap in STEAM, researching and developing VR tools for studying bias and racial interaction at The B.E.A.R.S Lab, being a summer intern at PIT-UN, and a digital accessibility intern at The American Foundation for the Blind, she’s committed to social justice and learning how to create digital experiences that benefit everyone.
Her diverse and interdisciplinary background combines technical knowledge, accessibility advocacy, and public interest technology. As an aspiring digital accessibility technologist, she’s excited to contribute to Every Learner Everywhere efforts in improving students’ experiences through digital learning.
Alicia Robinson | Clark Atlanta University
Alicia Robinson is a Business Administration major (Management Concentration) at Clark Atlanta University, class of December 2026. She also serves as a licensed Realtor® with Keller Williams Realty Atlanta Classic (Alicia Robinson Realty), where she’s honing skills in entrepreneurship, negotiation, and community engagement.
Alicia aspires to launch a para-church nonprofit that provides affordable legal aid, low-income housing, job and food security programs, educational equity, and supports for churches serving vulnerable communities. Being bilingual, she values inclusive communication and aims to bridge gaps across cultures and systems. Alicia is passionate about combining her real estate work with social justice to create real, sustainable change.
Hawa Smallwood | Delaware State University
Hawa Smallwood is a third-year Computer Science major at Delaware State University, originally from Cumberland, Rhode Island. With a passion for technology and community leadership, she is dedicated to combining academic excellence with service and innovation.
She has served as a board member for the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) DSU section and the Girls Who Code Loop at her university, leading initiatives that empower women and underrepresented groups in academic and professional spaces. She is also an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), furthering her commitment to community, collaboration, and representation in the technical field.
Looking ahead, Hawa plans to pursue a career in technology where she can contribute to innovation while advocating for equity in the industry. She is especially passionate about addressing the gender gap in tech and hopes to use her knowledge and platform to raise awareness, create opportunities, and inspire more women to pursue careers in technology.
Fox Williams | CUNY Baruch College | Transform Learning Student Intern
Fox Williams is a nontraditional student attending CUNY Baruch College, majoring in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. After working in commercial construction, she realized that courses lacked practical applications to the content being learned in class. With a background in Electrical Engineering Technology and STEM education, she decided to pivot and pursue opportunities in workforce development.
Currently, she teaches Trades Math and Electrical Theory at a non-profit to help women pursue careers in the trades. Seeing the financial impact that education has on her students inspires her to do more. Fox is ecstatic about how she can use transformative learning with Every Learner Everywhere to create a digitally accessible and equitable curriculum for a growing demographic of women in construction.
These students bring a wide range of diverse backgrounds and will work with our network through to help us better understand students’ digital learning and lived experiences. Our student interns are working with us on developing resources for institutions and providing thought leadership on issues facing college students today. We are so excited to welcome these students into our network and look forward to all there is to learn alongside them!
What students can gain from being an Every Learner intern:
- Professional experience
- Introduction to a network of student intern alumni and network professionals working in digital technologies and higher education
- A monthly stipend of $1,000 for 10 hours per work each week for a maximum of $3,000 for each semester
Image: Student Fellows met in person at the Atlanta Civil Rights Museum in November 2021 with former Every Learner Everywhere Director, Dr. Jessica Williams, and Student Fellows Coordinator, Tynan Gable.
Fellow Videos
Venus Rodriguez
Integrated Health Sciences
With a passion for the healthcare field, Venus dreams of becoming a physician assistant and working in underserved communities as a bilingual primary care provider.
Mark Lannaman
Journalism
Mark is working with SXSWedu to meaningfully engage students and implement online hybrid conference models and is also a student mentee for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists working on a documentary centered around gentrification in Atlanta.
Kristina Tucker
Psychology
Kristina is excited to announce that she was accepted into the Applied Psychology PhD program at Portland State University, where she will be doing research to understand the science behind human development — an aspect of psychology that she has always found interesting.
