Two HGS Students Land AIPR Internships

The fact that Cohen Professor for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Jim Waller serves as Academic Programs Director for the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR) and that AIPR has such respect for our Holocaust and Genocide Studies program and the students it produces creates a wonderful internship opportunity for HGS students. AIPR, a New York-based organization dedicated to building a worldwide network of leaders with the professional tools and the personal commitment to prevent genocide, typically hosts three summer interns, and it has a standing agreement with KSC that at least one of those three will always be one of our students. This year, two of our students have earned these coveted spots.

This summer, Tanner Semmelrock will be joining AIPR in New York City as a general intern. Tanner spent the spring ’15 semester studying at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. “I’m extremely excited to work with such dedicated and extraordinary individuals,” he said. “It will also be a great opportunity to apply my studies in a practical way.”

For next fall and spring, recent graduate Joanna Oko ’15 will begin a year-long internship at AIPR in NYC. She developed an individualized major in human rights during her time at KSC, studied abroad, and, since she was born in Poland, speaks fluent Polish.

“I am confident both Tanner and Joanna will do KSC very proud in these internship responsibilities,” Dr. Waller said, “and will be of great service to the global work of AIPR.”