Early on, Marianna Ramos knew what she wanted to do this summer. When the Project Pull application period opened this spring, she diligently began working on her application for the internship program. Ramos, a rising junior at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, had spent last summer working at San Francisco’s Animal Care and Control as a…

Nabiyou Elias never thought a global pandemic could impact him and his family both positively and negatively at the same time. “Personally, I have been able to take advantage of certain things during COVID-19. One, in particular, is online schooling,” said Elias. “Online schooling not only separates me and every other student from distractions, but…

Clara Becker’s experience with shifting to an online learning environment helped her better understand how to serve as a Project Pull Team Leader this summer. For Becker, the pandemic and the shelter-in-place orders meant that she had to leave college and return back to San Francisco in March. She, and many of her fellow classmates,…

“I never would have imagined coordinating a summer internship program that was fully online.” For Lisa Miles-Wilkerson, Director of Project Pull, and Carlos Ramos, Coordinator, planning for the annual summer internship program has been about being nimble and adjusting to the ever-changing global health crisis. Miles-Wilkerson has been Project Pull’s Program Director for many years….