Trinity College students spent the summer exploring potential careers as they gained practical skills through wide-ranging internships.
The College’s Career and Life Design Center worked with more than 200 students of all majors to support their internship experiences across the country and around the world. Many students were eligible for funding from several sources, and many earned co-curricular credit as part of the Trinity Plus Curriculum.
Read more from Trinity students about their impactful internships:
Majors: Film Studies and Studio Arts
Hometown: Mumbai, India
Summer internship: Media production and development intern, RSVK Social; Mulshi Valley, India (Summer Internship Funding)
Internship duties: Led the end-to-end production of a social impact film, including research, fundraising, script-writing, production logistics, cinematography, and post-production editing.
Highlights: I had the opportunity to work on creating a film that reflects on the theme of rural education and childhood in villages. Working closely with local children and seeing them become confident performers was especially rewarding.
Impact: My Trinity film courses helped me think critically about visual storytelling, composition, and narrative, while my studio art background strengthened my creative approach to cinematography and design. This summer internship went far beyond developing technical skills. My liberal arts education encouraged me to approach the project with curiosity, empathy, and an understanding of the social issues behind the story. The experience gave me the confidence to pursue a career in filmmaking, especially in projects that combine cinematic storytelling with meaningful social impact.
Major: Political Science
Hometown: Palm Beach, Florida
Summer internship: Private equity real estate intern on the Investor Relations Team, SROA Capital; West Palm Beach, Florida
Internship duties: Conducting research on current and prospective investors, preparing fundraising material and pitch decks, and underwriting deals.
Highlights: The best part of my internship has been gaining real-world experience and learning from professionals in the investment industry. I’ve especially enjoyed seeing how the Investor Relations Team communicates with investors and supports the firm’s growth.
Impact: This internship connects with my studies at Trinity by helping me develop communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills in a professional environment. It has also given me valuable exposure to private equity and real estate investing as I consider potential career paths after college.
Major: Economics; Minor: Applied Mathematics
Home country: China
Summer internship: Precious metals trading and logistics intern, Gerald Group; Stamford, Connecticut
Highlights: As the only intern supporting both the Trading and Traffic teams, I was trusted with meaningful responsibilities and gained understanding of how a physical metals trading company operates. Everyone was incredibly welcoming and willing to teach me, include me in meetings, and introduce me to people across the industry. I’ve learned a great deal about commodity trading, built genuine relationships, and discovered a career that I truly want to pursue.
Impact: I was able to apply the analytical skills I developed in class to understanding commodity markets, market research, and the trade lifecycle. Trinity also provided valuable resources that are incredibly important for commodity trading. Having access to the Bloomberg Lab allowed me to become more familiar with the terminal and continue building technical skills before this summer started. This summer internship confirmed my interest in trading and gave me confidence that this is the career path I want to pursue.
Major: Engineering (Concentration in Biomedical Engineering)
Hometown: Fairfield, Connecticut
Summer internship 1: Research assistant (remote), Hartford Hospital’s Ayer Neuroscience Institute; Hartford, Connecticut (Summer Internship Funding)
Internship duties: Working under Dr. Gabriel Martz, MD, FAES, on the development and validation of a large language model (LLM) designed to extract and summarize clinical data from patient charts, clinical notes, EEG reports, and MRI reports for patients with seizures.
Highlights: It’s been interesting to see how an LLM is developed and to contribute to its training. It’s exciting to be part of a project that has the potential to show the usefulness of AI in clinical research and just how impactful AI can be in improving healthcare for all.
Summer internship 2: Research and development intern, Oxford Performance Materials; South Windsor, Connecticut (funding from the NASA CT Space Grant Consortium)
Internship duties: Supporting research and development initiatives to advance polishing techniques and processes for orthopedic implants.
Highlights: At OPM I’ve gotten to work on real engineering projects that actually make a difference. I’ve enjoyed helping improve OPM’s hand polishing process and seeing how small changes can make the manufacturing process more efficient and consistent. It’s been a great opportunity for me to learn and improve my engineering skills in a professional industry environment.
Impact: I’ve been able to build my technical skills through testing, CAD design, and problem solving, and it’s helped confirm that I want to pursue a career in or around the med-tech industry after college.
Majors: Psychology and Religious Studies
Hometown: Skokie, Illinois
Summer internship: Wish experience intern, Make-A-Wish Illinois; Chicago, Illinois (Summer Internship Funding)
Internship duties: Input family intake form data (wish child info, child’s condition, child’s personality, etc.); decorate and personalize welcome packets for wish children and their families; connect with families; outreach; sit in on welcome calls; send out wish hold letters; attend meetings to talk about wins from the week and goals for the next week.
Highlights: Having the privilege of listening to a child share their biggest dreams and seeing the shift in energy from medical stress to anticipation and hope has been truly incredible. Seeing a wish come together and knowing the tangible positive impact every task I perform has on a child’s Wish Journey has made every project deeply fulfilling.
Impact: As an aspiring clinical psychologist, my academic coursework focuses heavily on human development, emotional resilience, and how supportive environments buffer against severe stress and trauma. My work with Make-A-Wish Illinois has served as an invaluable real-world application of active listening and empathetic communication, allowing me to translate classroom theories into practical skills I have used to navigate the complex emotions that accompany a child’s Wish Journey.
Major: Political Science; Minor: Philosophy
Hometown: New York, New York
Summer internship: Judicial intern, chambers of the Honorable Brendan T. Lantry, New York State Supreme Court; New York, New York
Internship duties: Conducting legal research; drafting memoranda; reviewing case files, motions, briefs, relevant statutes, and precedent; observing court proceedings, hearings, conferences, and trials in New York County courts; and assisting with case preparation.
Highlights: This work showed me how nuanced and fact-specific legal analysis can be, since even questions that seem settled often depend on how a specific fact pattern is framed. Watching attorneys argue motions and observing trials in person reinforced that, giving me a clearer sense of how the research and writing I was doing connected to what was actually happening in the courtroom.
Impact: Drafting memoranda on issues like statute of limitations and reviewing case law connects directly to skills I’ve built in the classroom. However, doing the work with real cases and real consequences demanded a level of precision and rigor that coursework alone can’t replicate. Observing and participating also has been useful as I consider law school.
Birdie Stark ’26 reflects on her experience as a first-year seminar mentor: “We help students navigate both the academic and personal dimensions of college life—our role extends far beyond the classroom.”
Trinity College students participating in this summer’s eight-week Summit to Wall Street program are developing skills that they can use to pursue careers in finance.
Breanna Pitta ’27 and Carla Schmidt ’27 were selected for the yearlong National Environmental Leadership Fellowship by the Rachel Carson Council to support environmental action in their communities.
Trinity College students Augustin Millet ’28 and Noah R. Turner ’27 spent a month conducting archaeological research in Greece this summer alongside Associate Professor of Classical Studies Martha K. Risser.
