The iiED has a very active intern program for CSUMB students studying in various majors. These interns get valuable work experience in event production, marketing, project management, video production, print and web design, research, and instructional design work as they help us with our programs and events. Each month we will focus on one of our outstanding student interns.

This month’s featured intern is Kathybelle Barlow. She has worked with the iiED in the Summer of 2020, and has returned this Spring to write success stories of startups that have won one or more of our iiED programs, and is doing her capstone on collaborating to expand the relationship between the iiED programs (e.g. Startup Challenge: Social Venture Division, Startup Tech Meetup) and the Nonprofit Sector in the Monterey Bay Region. Kathybelle has an AA in Health Science/Community Health from Cabrillo College and is a Collaborative Health and Human Services major with concentrations in Public Administration/Nonprofit Management and Social Work and a minor in Nonprofit Management at CSU, Monterey Bay. In addition to working with iIED, Kathybelle is a COPA leader (Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action) with CCCIL (Central Coast Center for Independent Living), and was appointed to the Advisory Council for the Monterey County Area Agency on Aging by the County Board of Supervisors, as well as serves on the Legislative & Advocacy Committee and the Monterey County Aging and Disability Resource Connection (MCADRC) Advisory Committee.

Her plans are to graduate in Spring 2022 and apply her many skills collaborating with government agencies and nonprofits to reduce loneliness and social isolation in adults and seniors. She may even become a founder of  her own startup nonprofit business making local activities in each county in the United States easier to find so local and visiting adults and seniors can build friendships and grow their social networks. You can learn more about Kathybelle on her LinkedIn page here.