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Hi everyone.

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I'm Bobbi.

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I am junior double majoring
in film studies and politics.

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And this is my presentation
about my internships

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this summer.

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So, I had two different
internships this summer.

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One was at National Geographic
in the Social Media department.

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And the other was at Societas.

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At National
Geographic, most people

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know from the yellow
border magazine

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that's sitting in
their attic somewhere.

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National Geographic is also a
TV brand, a pretty big TV brand.

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And it's the number
one brand on Instagram.

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It's got about 15 different
official Instagram counts

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that I counted or
was able to count.

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And it's also got over 40
million Facebook likes.

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I also worked at a
non-profit this summer

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located in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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It's called Instituto
Societas para Latinoamerica.

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And they're a
non-government organization

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that's just starting up.

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And they're focused
on political means.

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They center around socialism
and are a socialist think tank.

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So their goal is to spread
socialist policies and ideas

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throughout Latin
America and Europe

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and develop new economic
models for the 21st century.

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So how I got these?

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With Societas, he's
a family friend.

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My boss was a family friend
who reached out to me asking me

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if I could help him out.

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And I accepted.

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And with National
Geographic I found out

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that we have an alum who
works at National Geographic.

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I reached out to her, asked
her for a short phone call

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and also sent my
resume in there.

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And she saw that I might fit
in the social media department.

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And so I found out
about that internship

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three weeks before I
started and so I really

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had to scramble for housing.

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And I used the
Alumni State program

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to stay in an alum's
house for three weeks,

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and then actually
ended up moving up

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into my own apartment.

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And at Societas, I was able to--

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at Societas I was actually--
because I was there

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for three weeks, I
was able to just get

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an Airbnb for pretty cheap.

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So at National Geographic,
National Geographic has,

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as most people know,
these yellow borders.

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And they call that a yellow
portal into an unknown world

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that you can explore
in your brand.

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And so this guy right here
is me at National Geographic

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and is bordered
by yellow borders

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so that you can be immersed
into my internship this summer.

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That's my [INAUDIBLE] portal.

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[CHUCKLES]

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So I was in the Social
Media department.

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And this isn't running.

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I don't know.

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Sorry about this.

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Well-- no, don't do that.

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OK, whatever.

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This is a video.

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It's a text-on-screen video.

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It's then refurbished,
basically.

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So this is an old video that
was given to me by my boss.

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I told them that I was
interested in video editing.

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And they had me write this
text-- if you can see it.

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I'm sorry it's not working
right now-- but this text.

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And these [? bugs ?] on it.

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And I edited a little
bit and reposted it

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on [? Instagram. ?]
I'm specifically

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proud of this video.

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It acquired around 250,000
views on the "Life Below Zero"

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Facebook channel.

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So I'm particularly
proud of that.

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I also made GIFs, or GIFs,
whichever you prefer.

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These ones are from a TV show
called Year Million, which

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is about the
arbitrary year million

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when earth is no
longer inhabitable.

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And so it talks about
our life on Mars

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and how did we get there.

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And these are from an event that
was the first time they've ever

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done this called "Earth Live."

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And so "Earth Live" was
streamed live from six

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different continents
at the same time

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into a studio space that
was hosted by Jane Lynch.

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And so basically they alternated
between different wildlife

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locations.

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So we didn't know what was going
to happen during this event

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because it was a stream live,
so I had to do tons of research

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and prep tweets that
would pair with these JIFs

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on the animals, the
locations and just predict

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what was going to happen.

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I wrote about 200 tweets
alone just for that event.

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And so at Societas,
because Societas was just

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getting started,
I worked primarily

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on their conference
poster and their website.

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So I built their website.

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And I really
actually learned how

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to build a website
through this internship.

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With the poster, I
focused primarily

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on themes of
socialism that would

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provoke you to think about
socialism in Uruguay and Latin

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America.

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So this is kind of evocative
of the Soviet Union.

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And this is a Diego
Rivera picture that he--

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it's called Man
at the Crossroads.

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And it's comparing capitalism to
socialism just in that portrait

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alone.

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So my ups and downs.

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I was in Uruguay for weeks.

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And actually, I don't
any Spanish at all.

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And so I really had quite a
lot of trouble navigating that.

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At the Airbnb was
a shared Airbnb,

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and so I was able to practice my
Spanish with whatever roommate

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I had at the time.

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And so that was difficult.

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There was also
communication because I

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was working remotely in DC
for over half of the time

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I was working for Societas.

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I had a lot of trouble
communicating with my boss.

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But I also had an
incredible time in a country

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and actually a continent that
I had never visited before.

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It was also hard to change--

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at National Geographic
I was working

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in an office-based environment.

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In Uruguay and at
Societas, I didn't know--

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there was no office that
existed because it was just

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recently started.

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And so that was a
really hard transition.

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I also had to transition
between different cities.

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So I had to first
learn what DC was like.

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And then I had to learn
what Montevideo was like.

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And so through this, I
was able to figure out

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that both of this
internships linked

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to both of my majors, both
politics and film studies.

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So National Geographic
claims to be

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a non-political organization.

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But it focuses
primarily on science,

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which is a polarized
issue within politics.

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So it would focus
on a gender science

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issue or a climate change issue,
which was highly politicized.

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So you had to walk on a
very thin, tight, tight rope

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for-- the entire
internship, you had

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to be very careful
as to what you said.

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Now, Societas was a
socialist institute

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where in America that's the
same thing as communism.

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But in Uruguay it's run by a
socialist government right now.

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So it was really
interesting to see

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how to market to two
completely different cultures.

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And I just wanted to
say how grateful I

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am to have been
able to [? help. ?]

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[APPLAUSE]

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