Interns

Berit Anderson Editorial Intern

After a few months of transition between Los Angeles, her native San Juan Islands and Seattle, Berit is excited about settling into an internship with the YES! team on Bainbridge Island. Prior to beginning work with YES! she spent her days producing PR for Strategic News Service, blogging for the Huffington Post and exploring her fluctuating surroundings. Berit received her Arts Baccalaureate in May 2009 in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College. Over the course of her collegiate career, she balanced her role as a full-time student with a position as an editor at the Occidental Weekly; a four-month stint in Rabat, Morocco, studying and conducting independent research in the field of urban microcredit; involvement in numerous mentoring and educational community outreach programs in the L.A. area; and a summer of nursing blisters on the Camino de Santiago, a walking pilgrimage from the French Pyrenees to the Spanish Atlantic coast. Berit is an avid fan of outdoor adventures, baking and cooking with local foods and pursuing increased sustainability and social justice through connectivity, innovation, and the written word.

Alysa Austin, Education Intern

Alysa recently traded her cozy New England lifestyle in the Berkshire Mountains of Vermont and Western Massachusetts to pursue a longtime desire to live in the Pacific Northwest.  She holds a B.A. in Experiential Education and writing and has spent most of her past five years traveling and working in educational settings. She has studied abroad in Scandinavia and South America, led kayaking tours in Downeast Maine, worked with New York City teenagers in the mountains of Western Massachusetts, and led groups of teenagers on service and cultural exchange programs in Sweden, Russia, and the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. Alysa recently returned from Laos where she spent six months teaching English, traveling, and introducing her taste buds to the spicy foods of South East Asia. Alongside travel and education, Alysa enjoys cooking, baking, painting, and most activities that let her be outdoors. Alysa is excited to join the YES! community and further explore her interest in education and learn more about the artful tool of story telling.

Ashlee Green, Editorial Intern

Repping the City of Champions hard, (Go Pens!) Ashlee Green was saddened to leave her Pittsburgh, PA roots but eager to begin the next chapter of her life with YES! Magazine. She holds a B.A. in Creative Nonfiction, Minor in Aerobics-Fitness and Certificate in Gender, Sex & Identity Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and will refute anyone who says that she can't combine all three subject matters into one solid career. A proponent of preventive medicine and local food, she spent the last few months teaching yoga and group exercise at the Downtown Pittsburgh YMCA and writing the Eaters Digest e-newsletter for PASA, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. During her summer of '08 in Hyderabad, India, she was one of seven girls to pile into a three-seater auto rickshaw and accidentally took a pack of wild dogs for a morning jaunt. She's already breaking new ground as the only real brunette intern here at YES!, and is keen on doing more (meaningful) work as the months go on.

Ariel Kazunas, Media and Outreach Intern

Originally from the land of cows, corn, beer and cheese known as Madison, WI, Ariel is now a thriving transplant to the Pacific Northwest. She has lived in Portland, OR, for the past six years, first earning her BA in Gender Studies from Lewis and Clark College, and then heading out into “the real world,” to try everything from kayak guiding, pastry teching, and even children’s book writing. A firm believer that everyone has the right to have their stories told and their voices recognized, Ariel also worked as editorial intern for Bitch Magazine while in Portland, and is thrilled to return to the world of nonprofit media. She’s having fun exploring the Seattle and Bainbridge Island areas, especially the farmers markets and bike trails, and letting her co-workers in on her not-so-secret obsession with baking.

Susie Shutts, YES! Online Intern

Susie is from Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from Ohio University, in southeast Ohio, where she double majored in journalism and photojournalism. She became obsessed with exploring and photographing the region’s abandoned mines and old mining boomtowns. Susie created a Web site to house her work and is excited about working as a web intern at YES! to learn about online communication on a larger scale. While at school, she rowed for the crew team, wrote for her college paper, and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity. She enjoys running and hiking, cooking, and reading science articles.

 
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