As a contractor at the Department of State's Office of Children's Issues, I reviewed incoming emails, letters, faxes and correspondence from courts and posts and forwarded them to the appropriate Country Officer for response daily. I also collected and compiled data on child abduction cases for the Office's annual report to Congress.

As the Communications intern, my primary duties consisted of updating content on the organization’s website and blog using HTML to meet company branding and design standards, and producing content for our bi-weekly newsletters. Larger projects that I worked on included organizing previous website content for transition to a new web platform. I also collected and compiled data on mailing rates from the Center's website database, which I analyzed using Microsoft Excel.

Research Assistant

Assisted visitors in finding photographs and documents in the photo archives and compiled a reference of all photographs and documents pertaining to the Middle East within the archives. Learned how to navigate different archive systems throughout the DC area.