Now Open: Health + Humanities Spring ’25 Student Internship Funding
Up to three students will be awarded funding to support internships in health + humanities with organizations that contribute to healing through narrative. (We encourage you to think broadly and boldly about this definition!).
- Priority will be given to those students taking an internship class for the Health Studies Minor.
- Applications for Spring ’25 Internship funding are open Dec 2 2024 - Jan 31 2025.
- Decisions will be made on a first come first serve basis, so please get your application in as soon as possible!
Community and Global Health is located in room 307 and 309 of J.R. Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus.
email communityglobalHEAL@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7636
Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell
Director
jerusha@lclark.edu
Carolyn L. Zook
Associate Director and Pre-Health Advisor
carolynzook@lclark.edu
Alexis Rehrmann
Community Engagement Coordinator
alexisr@lclark.edu
Community and Global Health
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Portland OR 97219
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Listen to This: A Poem
You don’t have to be ready,
but you can be loved…
A poem spoken into collective being by Narrative Scribes at Lewis & Clark College, February 11, 2023 and scribed by Alexis Rehrmann.

Interning at Inside-Out: Six Questions for Molly Gibbons
With funding from the Mellon Foundation, LC student Molly Gibbons completed the inaugural Inside-Out Internship over Summer and Fall of 2022. Molly is a History major and Hispanic Studies minor from Missoula MT who plans to graduate in Spring ’24.
“This internship was one of the most informative and valuable work and educational experiences I have had,” she said. Read on to find out why.
