Spanish Major Jobs and Graduate School Acceptances 2022

Internship Experience
 

Hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Majors: political science, Spanish

Graduate School: Penn State Dickinson School of Law

Program of study: J.D law program

 

 

Dickinson has prepared me for life after graduation by helping me to continue to build my work ethic so that I can be a productive law student. Through my work on the Dickinson Mock Trial team, I have also sharpened my public speaking and trial advocacy skills that will benefit me in law school.

 

 

After law school graduation, I am hoping to become a federal prosecutor and also pursue pro-bono work. 

 

 

During my education at Dickinson, I was able to build meaningful connections with my peers and professors. Additionally, I was able to serve as a team captain for the Dickinson Mock Trial team during my junior year and then the vice president of the club during my senior year, which I found to be extremely helpful as I navigated how to be a leader in a legal setting. This will be highly relevant in my future as I pursue a career as a trial attorney. 

 

 

I was a a legal intern at Immigration Support Services in Enola, Pa. where I analyzed legal information and proofread petitions to streamline status approval processes. I also interned as a judicial intern at the Cumberland County Courthouse, where I observed all hearings, pretrial conferences and trials to deepen understanding of legal procedures and also discussed the outcomes with Judge Edward Guido and Judge Al Masland '79. Lastly, I interned at the Consumer Protection Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C., where I was a legal intern. During this internship, I conducted investigative research to locate victims of fraud across the country, synthesized memorandums and translated/transcribed Spanish evidence. 
 

Carli Boyer

Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland
Majors: Spanish, international business & management 
Employer: Brighton Jones
Job title: associate advisor

Job Responsibilities

Manage the day-to-day responsibilities, priorities and workload of their client service teams. This includes providing analytical, operational and administrative support for the acquisition, implementation and ongoing retention of clients. Provide spreadsheet analysis on an ad-hoc basis for more advanced financial topics and other specialty requests such as tax-loss harvesting, stock option and restricted stock inventories and other wealth transfer strategies; maintains all record-keeping related to these activities, including cost basis and other position data via portfolio management software.

How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?

Through the liberal arts education, I have enhanced my writing abilities and problem-solving skills, which will assist me post-grad. 

What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?

Starting my job as associate advisor with other Dickinson alums.

What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?

Being awarded All-American status for my soccer career and meeting my best friends. 

Internship Experience

Royal Bank of Canada 

• Researched general trends of stocks and analyzed financial ratios.
• Organized reports of general market trends in the electric vehicle and metaverse industry and presented findings. 
• Provided office management including scanning, data entry, ordering and Excel organization.
• Called charities to initiate stock donation process.

Hometown: Sunnyside, New York

Majors: international business & management, Spanish 

Graduate School: Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business

Field of study: Dual-degree program studying accounting and business administration

 

 

As the tax intern for United Way of the Capital Region in partnership with Dickinson College, I was given an office phone in my dorm room to schedule clients for tax preparation appointments. Most importantly, once a week, I prepared income tax returns for Carlisle residents in need. Lastly, I remotely worked with my supervisor to brainstorm the best ways to remotely file tax returns for our clients due to the extension to tax season by Covid-19. It was a great honor to be selected as the only VITA intern out of about 10-15 VITA volunteers to provide the necessary tax-return assistance to low-and-moderate income individuals, families, the elderly, persons with disabilities and those with limited English-speaking ability. I directly made an impact on the Carlisle community and discovered taxation as a potential pursuit of mine.

   

As the current finance intern at the head office of EDSI, I assist the finance team on a weekly basis to compile invoices and gather data. I also work directly with the senior finance manager and corporate controller on special projects. For example, I updated the contracts repository for the entire company for this program year in which I directed several meetings with project accountants and served as a project manager. Currently, I am creating a schedule of the company's tax returns to create an efficient tracking system. My biggest accomplishment in this role thus far was creating the budget for a grant proposal seeking to establish a new program that would provide resources to underprivileged high school students. My contribution to the team was successful as EDSI won this grant proposal. 

 

I served as the bilingual human services intern in which I worked directly with the facilitator team lead. As a part of the facilitator team, I organized the curriculum for several, self-directed courses on Canvas. I also translated the orientation handbook for the office's biggest program into Spanish. Furthermore, I supported the data analysis team by tracking each program’s funding stream, enrollments, placements and retention rates using Microsoft Power BI. I also assisted the marketing team on several projects by creating flyers and writing scripts for videos as well as interviewing clients.

 

 

Dickinson has enabled me the experience to discover more about my present self, as well as the woman I plan to build up to in the future. Surrounded by an inspiring and inclusive student body, I vowed to rise to the same example and challenge myself to excel as a young woman and scholar through my involvement in on-campus events and within the local Carlisle community. I applied for positions that surpassed my comfort zone on the executive board of Student Senate, jobs on and off-campus and various club positions. Today, I continue to set goals beyond those of comfort as Dickinson has prepared me to. I am driven and determined to put in the time and effort in the rigorous graduate program I will be attending to pursue my professional goals. 

 

 

I anticipate the MBA/ MS in accounting program at Northeastern University's D'Amore-Mckim School of Business to be rigorous. However, I am determined to rise to all the challenges with the goals of receiving my CPA license and pursuing a career in taxation. 

 

 

Some of the defining moments of my Dickinson experience include serving as director of financial strategy for the Student Senate, serving on the Spanish Majors Committee and my membership in Kappa Alpha Theta. 

 

Christine Marsh