Not every internship is connected to a large organization. Valuable and impactful opportunities often appear in smaller, unexpected places. That was the case for Grace Boehm. Boehm’s first experience with the nonprofit sector came at just 9 years old. She was on a mission trip to an orphanage in Kentucky that helped children from around… Read more »
When O’Neill alumna Mary Moran (BSCJ’00, MSCJPS’13) stepped out of her vehicle in Sullivan, Indiana, on April 1, she knew there was a long recovery ahead. “It was catastrophic destruction,” she recalls. The small town had taken a direct hit from a strong EF-3 tornado the night before. As the Director of Emergency Management and… Read more »
The assignment seemed simple enough. Get a piece of paper and write down your dream job. “I wrote down aviation,” says Shelby Sykes, an O’Neill Public Safety Management major. In fall 2022, Sykes was in Stacy Lozer’s Career Development class. As the students worked on their latest assignment, Lozer told them to also write down… Read more »
Chris Daley was searching for a program to support leaders in child and family welfare agencies around Indiana. “The people who run child and family welfare agencies get into the work because they want to do good in the world,” he says. “But they don’t always have the leadership training necessary to take themselves or… Read more »
O’Neill Assistant Professor Christian Buerger was attending school in East Germany when the Berlin Wall was torn down and Germany was reunified. “The transitional period that followed afterward was extremely difficult,” he recalls. During that time, everyday life began to change quickly for Buerger and the reunification brought new challenges for him and his family…. Read more »
