Undergraduate Community-Based Internships (UCBI)
The purpose of the Undergraduate Community-Based Internships (UCBI) is to create partnerships between undergraduate students and nonprofit and public sector organizations that are engaged in community-led work. UCBI aims to partner strategically with organizations that are reflecting on power, privilege and oppression in the communities they serve and within their own organizations. This program invites collaboration and minimizes financial barriers by providing local community organizations the opportunity to hire undergraduate student interns for a portion of the total cost of the program and offers financial support to students interested in exploring a career in public service. Undergraduate Community-Based Interns will serve with their host organizations in winter and spring quarters, launching the first week of January and culminating at the end of May. Interns will commit approximately 10 hours per week during winter quarter and approximately 10 hours per week during spring quarter at their host organization and receive a stipend for their work. Through a partnership with the University of Washington’s Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center, Doorway covers the community partner network and all program costs associated with the UCBI students at their host site.
Doorway UCBI Interns
EMMA MANCANO
2023 - 2024
Emma is a third-year sociology major studying at the University of Washington. She is interning at The Doorway Project through UW’s community-based internship (UCBI) program.
Her academic interests lie in understanding the way interconnected identity factors including race, class, gender, sexuality, and physical ableness shape lived experiences. She hopes to use this sociological framework of intersectionality as a steppingstone in supporting disadvantaged individuals through their healing processes.
Samerawit Hailu
2021 - 2022
Samerawit is a sophomore at the University of Washington Seattle planning to major in Law Societies and Justice. I am a second year intern with Doorway and I help with collecting resources and conduct outreach. I try to bring diverse ideas, perspectives and questions to the program based on lived experiences in hopes to expose those around me to different viewpoints in order to grow. Outside of my school and internship, I love to hike, bake, binge watch any HBO shows and explore new food spots.