Sheila McIntosh
English Major
Amplifying Young Voices: Working in Nonprofit Publications
I spent this summer as a Publications Intern at 826CHI, a chapter of a national nonprofit that provides free creative writing programs to students. My role was to transform manuscripts of student writing, from sci-fi plays to political poems, into professionally-published books. I worked on two books coming out this fall, the sale from which will be used to fund the organization’s programs. I gained concrete skills and career experience, but I also learned more about what I’d like to do professionally. Most importantly, I used the writing, analytical, and interpersonal skills I learned at Mount Holyoke as an English major and Peer Health Educator to help empower Chicago young people to tell their own stories.