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Application deadline March 15, 2013 - Click here to apply now!
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Be a Campus Entrepreneur Intern! Join hundreds of students across the country as they transform Jewish life for their peers. Build relationships. Connect to Jewish life. Create meaningful Jewish opportunities.
- The Campus Entrepreneurs Initiative (CEI) is designed to dramatically enhance Jewish life on campus . Each campus employs a cohort of students with broad social networks to build relationships with uninvolved Jewish students over the course of a year.
- Each Campus Entrepreneur is charged with building relationships with uninvolved Jewish students on campus. Serving as a resource to meaningful opportunities, the Campus Entrepreneurs strive to advance Jewish values in the context of their relationships.
- The Campus Entrepreneur Interns strive to understand students’ interests, passions, and aspirations – and connect them to opportunities that they may find meaningful and engaging.
- Campus Entrepreneurs are given a budget to plan initiatives that identify them as relevant and Jewish, enable them to meet uninvolved Jewish students and follow-up with them in an authentic, comfortable, and open way. Initiatives have the dual purpose of attracting uninvolved students and advancing Jewish values.
- The Campus Entrepreneurs provide on-going relationship-building, especially as follow-up to immersive and meaningful experiences such as Taglit-Birthright Israel trips, Alternative Break trips, etc.
- The Campus Entrepreneurs Initiative Internship are on a significant number of campuses that have a large uninvolved Jewish population.
| MEET THE INTERNS
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| Emily Baumgarten Emily is a senior at the University of Southern California, theater major studying acting, dance, singing and directing. She enjoys running, traveling, and hiking. Being a CEI pushes her to put herself out there to form bonds and connect with other students by engaging in stimulating conversations. Last winter break she had the opportunity to go with Hillel of USC to Israel on Birthright. After this amazing experience she began to work at Hillel as a birthright intern and worked to keep the Birthright group connected after the trip. Since then she has been more comfortable reaching out and forming friendships based on common interests and shared experiences. |
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| Joshua Faskowitz Josh is a collector of sorts. From a young age he has taken the idea of gather stuffs to great extents. It started with Hot Wheels –with a car collection that featured many cars of the imaginary flight variety. Then came Legos, and Pokemon galore, soon to be followed by a baseball card collection that could wrap about the moon if each card was laid end to end. In high school, Josh collected volunteer hours. Today, Josh continues his righteous mission. He currently collects interests. Josh thought it would be cool to collect a whole bunch of interests, such as postmodern literature, DJing, global economics, Soviet governance, computational aesthetics, fantasy football, contemporary art, puns, and fine hybrid cheeses. But it is time for Josh to grow up. Collecting is for children. Although grown-ups still collect in a sense, but they don’t call it collecting—they call it networking. So join Josh, as he ‘networks’ around USC (essentially collecting relationships/people/names/food). He is really stoked to network as part of CEI, since it is sort of his life-long thang. |
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| Shawn Feldman Shawn is a senior majoring in Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California. Born in Los Angeles, Shawn grew up in Brentwood, was raised biculturally with a Korean mother and Jewish father, and attended Harvard-Westlake School prior to USC. Shawn is an active member of USC’s Hillel as a Campus Entrepreneur Initiative (CEI) Intern, national URJ contact, and selected member of TAMID Israeli Investment Group. An advocate for social justice, Shawn is also an ACCESS Leader for the American Jewish Committee of Los Angeles and is a University Fellow for the USC chapters of Jewish World Watch (JWW) and Liberty in North Korea (LiNK). Shawn will be attending the USC School of Pharmacy in the fall of 2013, currently conducts research in aging in the USC Dornsife Department of Molecular Biology, and his professional interests lie in biotech and pharmaceuticals, particularly in the areas of epigenetics and gene therapy. In his free time, Shawn enjoys playing jazz saxophone, songwriting, and dancing salsa. |
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| Jason Finkelstein As people around the world were celebrating the arrival of 1993, little did they know they’d soon have another reason to be joyous. Just 1 hour and 21 minutes later, at 1:21 AM, a smiling baby boy was born in San Francisco, California. He was raised in the sunny East Bay where he spent his youth playing baseball, which culminated in a Little League 1-hitter, and eagerly devouring Jewish knowledge at Bet Sefer Avraham, his synagogue’s Hebrew School. Soon after truly becoming a man at his Bar-Mitzvah, Jason moved on to Oakland Technical High School where an exceptional project won him first prize at the California State Fair for Solid Model Rendering, a truly life-altering experience. His “Jewish Journey,” so to speak, continued with membership in BBYO, a teen-led, international youth group. After being lucky enough to get an acceptance letter to the University of Southern California, Jason become the first student from his high school to attend. He is currently majoring in International Relations and Cognitive Science. Jason loves long walks and deep talks, but according to sources close to him his true passion lies in helping others connect with their Judaism. He’s incredibly grateful to Hillel for providing him with this opportunity through its CEI program. |
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| Jared Fleitman Jared is a junior from Mission Viejo, CA double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Economics-Mathematics with an emphasis in computer science and web development. He is the captain of the USC Roller Hockey Team, leads an air force-funded combustion efficiency research project through the AME department, and is actively involved in the USC Jewish community as a CEI, 2-time Freshfest Engagement Fellow, and founder of the TAMID Israel Investment Group. Jared also has a passion for entrepreneurship, and after working in startups and venture capital in San Francisco this summer he is in the process of developing his own company with another USC student. Jared believes in the value of mentoring students and connecting networks and feels a strong responsibility to give back to the USC community. |
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| Rebecca Grumet Becca is currently pursuing a BA in film and television production with a minor in screenwriting from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. This past summer, she was part of the Studio G-dcast residency at the Jewish Contemporary Museum, where she wrote and directed an animated story from the Talmud. As last year’s president of the Jewish Alliance of GLBTs and Straights (JAGS), she co-founded the Spirituality and Sexuality Retreat program, and will chair the event board for a second year. Becca is extremely excited about CEI and its ability to open doors to a deeper understanding of spirituality, new friendships, and self-discovery. |
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| Katelyn Masket Katelyn is a sophomore from Thousand Oaks, CA double majoring in International Relations and Economics. This summer through USC she traveled to the Arctic region to conduct IR research on environmental issues and indigenous populations in the area. Through USC Hillel she was able to spend her first spring break in Odessa, Ukraine volunteering with the Joint Distribution Committee and looks forward to participating in another alternative break this spring. On campus Katelyn is a member of Trojan Pride, the Teaching International Relations Program, Alpha Delta Pi, and WYSE mentoring program. In addition, she is thrilled to be working as a CEI intern for USC Hillel during the upcoming year because she cannot wait to meet students from diverse communities within USC as well as try to connect them to programs, initiatives, and other students, all of which can enrich their time as a Trojan. |
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| Stephen Siegel Stephen is a junior majoring in Economics/Mathematics and minoring in Accounting. He’s the president of USC’s Club Baseball team and a recovering chocoholic. Besides spreading the word of the Torah, he also tries to recruit people to join him in the Paleo diet. Despite the claims of many fellow CEIs that they will join him, officially zero of them have entered his wonderful world of ground beef and vegetables. He’s excited to get Jewish students active in the Greek community involved in exploring their Jewish identity. |
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| Hilary Wright Hilary is a junior at the University of Southern California, where she is double majoring in Neuroscience and Biology. Upon completion of her degrees, she looks forward to volunteering abroad for a year in the area of health education, before continuing her education for an MD. In addition to her work as a part of the Campus Entrepreneur Initiative team (CEI), Hilary serves as a USC Tour Guide, a volunteer with the Trojan Health Volunteers through the Joint Educational Project, and as Vice Chair for the March of Dimes National Youth Council. In her time as a CEI, Hilary looks forward to engaging other students interested in volunteerism, specifically in the area of health and education. |
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