Introducing MCLI's Summer Interns
Kelly Winer studies Social Welfare and Global Poverty at the University of California, Berkeley. She is passionate about mitigating poverty, inequality, and the deficits of information and resources that they cause. Through student organizations at UC Berkeley, Kelly leads seminars and workshops about class, race, gender and sexual orientation. Kelly interned with the DA of Los Angeles’ department on gangs and vice in 2009. This experience enabled her to observe the interrelating forces of poverty, crime, law, and public policy first-hand and was a driving force behind the subsequent field research regarding the intersection of homelessness and city-level policies that Kelly initiated in 2010. Today, Kelly is thrilled to work with MCLI towards the pursuit of human rights for all.
Born in Guangzhou, China, Carmen Ye immigrated to San
Francisco when she was three. Growing up in the Chinatown community she became committed to the Adopt-an-Alleyway Youth Empowerment Project (AAA). This organization of high school students focuses on issues of environmental cleanliness, open space, and affordable housing. Currently a rising junior, Carmen is majoring in Social Welfare and Asian American Studies, with a minor in Public Policy. She has been involved in many areas of campus life, including completing a research apprenticeship in Sociology, writing for hardboiled Asian Pacific American newsmagazine, and joining Phi Nu Xi multicultural sorority. Next year she will serve as a co-leader for a service-learning trip to San Diego/Tijuana as part of the Alternative Breaks program through the Cal Corps Public Service Center. Upon graduation, Carmen hopes to be a teacher through Teach for America before pursuing a Master’s in Public Policy.
Rod Brown recently graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in International Relations where he focused on US foreign policy and US involvement within the international community. Now, he is going into his second year at Golden Gate University, School of Law where he will focus on international law. Human rights is an area in which Rod says he has a great amount of interest. Having volunteered at two organizations last semester, he has come to appreciate the importance of non-profits. Rod says the work that MCLI does is "truly inspiring"; he looks forward to the experience and particularly, what he will be able to incorporate into his time as the vice president of the International Law Society at school, next year.