Shira Drossos '06
Newton, MA
English Major
Boston Mobilization, Boston
Boston Mobilization is an amazing place to be an intern because the organization is youth run and non-hierarchical and thus you are doing the real work, making the decisions, completing the projects, etc., and are never really told what to do but are given instead the freedom to create and take charge in whatever most interests or excites you. Mobe has been developing a racism, militarism and materialism curriculum for Boston Public School High School students. As my primary interests are with elementary school aged children and I have a real interest in bring diversity and tolerance training into early ed classrooms, I spent the summer working to develop a curriculum to meet this need.
We took a retreat to an amazing place called the House of Peace. The house is run by a couple whom have been anti-war activists since the 1960’s and participated directly in the first ploughshares movement. Seniors with varying degrees of special needs live in the house, and with their acute sense of caring and kindness help to care for the refugees that the couple allows to seek respite within their home. Being in this environment was really indescribable.
I hope to graduate and have my own classroom and have long believed that tolerance, peace, and diversity curriculum should be the founding platform in any education environment. I plan to take much of what I learned this summer and apply it to my own career.
This internship far exceeded my expectations. I was fearful it would be like all other internships I have heard about in which I would be shuffling papers around and answering phones all day. The only busy work I did was my own.
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