Hi everyone.
I'm Bobbi.
I am junior double majoring in film studies and politics.
And this is my presentation about my internships
this summer.
So, I had two different internships this summer.
One was at National Geographic in the Social Media department.
And the other was at Societas.
At National Geographic, most people
know from the yellow border magazine
that's sitting in their attic somewhere.
National Geographic is also a TV brand, a pretty big TV brand.
And it's the number one brand on Instagram.
It's got about 15 different official Instagram counts
that I counted or was able to count.
And it's also got over 40 million Facebook likes.
I also worked at a non-profit this summer
located in Montevideo, Uruguay.
It's called Instituto Societas para Latinoamerica.
And they're a non-government organization
that's just starting up.
And they're focused on political means.
They center around socialism and are a socialist think tank.
So their goal is to spread socialist policies and ideas
throughout Latin America and Europe
and develop new economic models for the 21st century.
So how I got these?
With Societas, he's a family friend.
My boss was a family friend who reached out to me asking me
if I could help him out.
And I accepted.
And with National Geographic I found out
that we have an alum who works at National Geographic.
I reached out to her, asked her for a short phone call
and also sent my resume in there.
And she saw that I might fit in the social media department.
And so I found out about that internship
three weeks before I started and so I really
had to scramble for housing.
And I used the Alumni State program
to stay in an alum's house for three weeks,
and then actually ended up moving up
into my own apartment.
And at Societas, I was able to--
at Societas I was actually-- because I was there
for three weeks, I was able to just get
an Airbnb for pretty cheap.
So at National Geographic, National Geographic has,
as most people know, these yellow borders.
And they call that a yellow portal into an unknown world
that you can explore in your brand.
And so this guy right here is me at National Geographic
and is bordered by yellow borders
so that you can be immersed into my internship this summer.
That's my [INAUDIBLE] portal.
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So I was in the Social Media department.
And this isn't running.
I don't know.
Sorry about this.
Well-- no, don't do that.
OK, whatever.
This is a video.
It's a text-on-screen video.
It's then refurbished, basically.
So this is an old video that was given to me by my boss.
I told them that I was interested in video editing.
And they had me write this text-- if you can see it.
I'm sorry it's not working right now-- but this text.
And these [? bugs ?] on it.
And I edited a little bit and reposted it
on [? Instagram. ?] I'm specifically
proud of this video.
It acquired around 250,000 views on the "Life Below Zero"
Facebook channel.
So I'm particularly proud of that.
I also made GIFs, or GIFs, whichever you prefer.
These ones are from a TV show called Year Million, which
is about the arbitrary year million
when earth is no longer inhabitable.
And so it talks about our life on Mars
and how did we get there.
And these are from an event that was the first time they've ever
done this called "Earth Live."
And so "Earth Live" was streamed live from six
different continents at the same time
into a studio space that was hosted by Jane Lynch.
And so basically they alternated between different wildlife
locations.
So we didn't know what was going to happen during this event
because it was a stream live, so I had to do tons of research
and prep tweets that would pair with these JIFs
on the animals, the locations and just predict
what was going to happen.
I wrote about 200 tweets alone just for that event.
And so at Societas, because Societas was just
getting started, I worked primarily
on their conference poster and their website.
So I built their website.
And I really actually learned how
to build a website through this internship.
With the poster, I focused primarily
on themes of socialism that would
provoke you to think about socialism in Uruguay and Latin
America.
So this is kind of evocative of the Soviet Union.
And this is a Diego Rivera picture that he--
it's called Man at the Crossroads.
And it's comparing capitalism to socialism just in that portrait
alone.
So my ups and downs.
I was in Uruguay for weeks.
And actually, I don't any Spanish at all.
And so I really had quite a lot of trouble navigating that.
At the Airbnb was a shared Airbnb,
and so I was able to practice my Spanish with whatever roommate
I had at the time.
And so that was difficult.
There was also communication because I
was working remotely in DC for over half of the time
I was working for Societas.
I had a lot of trouble communicating with my boss.
But I also had an incredible time in a country
and actually a continent that I had never visited before.
It was also hard to change--
at National Geographic I was working
in an office-based environment.
In Uruguay and at Societas, I didn't know--
there was no office that existed because it was just
recently started.
And so that was a really hard transition.
I also had to transition between different cities.
So I had to first learn what DC was like.
And then I had to learn what Montevideo was like.
And so through this, I was able to figure out
that both of this internships linked
to both of my majors, both politics and film studies.
So National Geographic claims to be
a non-political organization.
But it focuses primarily on science,
which is a polarized issue within politics.
So it would focus on a gender science
issue or a climate change issue, which was highly politicized.
So you had to walk on a very thin, tight, tight rope
for-- the entire internship, you had
to be very careful as to what you said.
Now, Societas was a socialist institute
where in America that's the same thing as communism.
But in Uruguay it's run by a socialist government right now.
So it was really interesting to see
how to market to two completely different cultures.
And I just wanted to say how grateful I
am to have been able to [? help. ?]
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