Intern Bios

Interns

Aviva Buechler, Clubs Intern

Aviva Buechler is a junior at Barnard College majoring in history, with a concentration in wars, revolutions, and social changes (super fun!). She comes from the exotic island, also known as Long Island, where the animals run free and farms exist every two miles. Aviva is a huge fan of the TV show Friends (and sometimes thinks that it’s still airing) and has become a major enthusiast of Lost and NCIS. She loves listening to Pandora, and may have to buy more hours per month, and also enjoys baking chocolate chip cookies! Her secret obsession is spotting celebrities around New York City (and is a major Gaga fan). Her passion is for volunteering and making the world better each day, which makes Do Something a fantastic organization to be at! At Do Something, Aviva is the Outreach Intern and loves talking to teens who want to make a difference!

Celia Waggoner, Clubs Intern

Celia is from Cleveland (which she's been told is obvious because of her accent), but since it was recently honored with the title of most miserable city in America, and since LeBron James is the only thing supporting the economy, she decided to go elsewhere to seek her education and career prospects. So, now she is a freshman at NYU studying political science and public policy...maybe. Celia loves trashy T.V., but when she's not watching some show about teenage moms, she enjoys exploring different neighborhoods around the city and finding good thrift stores and delicious places to eat. She also loves traveling and is planning on studying abroad in Ghana in a couple years. Until then, she's so excited to be living in New York City...and working at Do Something, of course.

Chandra Russell, Business Development Intern

Chandra Russell is a theater major at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is a senior, and anxiously awaiting her graduation. She is excited to be a starving artist in NYC and has no desire to spend another minute in a classroom (Message to the kids-education really is super important). She is a ridiculously proud Chicagoan and is obsessed with the Bulls. Chandra loves children because they’re honest, hates littering because it’s rude, laughs often and loudly because it’s necessary, and thinks everyone should write at least one poem in their life. Her family is her rock and she reps for them in everything she does. She adores all things Hip Hop and will probably marry a rapper (fingers crossed Common or Andre Benjamin). Don’t take what they give you, take what you want – Bill Russell (Boston Celtics)…. Learn it, live it, love it.

Emebeit Beyene, Content Intern

Emebeit is a graduating Senior at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, with a double major in Acting and Africana Studies. She is really passionate about using art to create awareness on social issues, hence the two majors. She hails from Philly but is very proud of her Ethiopian roots. Random fact: she is obsessed with Los Angeles and has a personal relationship with La Brea Ave(a complete inside joke that she regrets not being able to explain). She believes that traveling makes her a better artist and person, and dreams of a career that allows her to constantly travel. Good thing acting is her major. She likes to think she is really funny, in a very dry kind of way, and loves every opportunity to act crazy like dancing in the street and telling people that she will marry Maxwell when she grows up. But she believes that crazy is the beginnings of genius, so in that case, she is ahead of the game. Keep your eyes open and watch out for this one because she is definitely going to Do Something.

Pauline Ma, CGG Intern

Pauline is a junior at New York University majoring in communications. She’s from New Jersey, a short drive away from the Jersey Shore (insert witty comment about the TV show here). Last semester she was in Paris, where she got to go to John Galliano’s Fashion Week show on the first day of her internship. While in zee city of love, she also took a “hip hop girly” (think Beyonce in “Single Ladies”) class taught by a guy who has danced and choreographed for Soulja Boy before. Those two things sound like they contradict each other but she swears it was amazing! When she’s not writing for CGG or in class, Pauline consults for and produces fashion shows at NYU as the Co-President of NYU Modeling Club. This semester she is producing an annual benefit fashion show for a cause dear to her heart: providing and furthering education for underprivileged children.
5 things she loves: family dinners, mint chocolate chip ice cream, a good Disney/Pixar film (Up, anyone?), NBC's The Office, ... and the number 5.

Rachel Eden, Boot Camp Intern

Rachel is a born and raised Manhattan-ite and proud of it! Even though she is a true blue city girl Rachel is a nature loving hippy chiild at heart. She is a junior at the Fashion Institute of Technology and against popular belief doesn't study fashion, she studies communication design or in other words graphic design. She one day hopes to be a graphic designer for a not-for-profit company. Rachel has always been an avid agent for social change and accordingly spearheaded her high school's first diversity initiative called U.T.O.P.l.A. C.A.F.E. or United Together Our People Inspire Allies, Cultural Awareness for Everyone. Although this club was small it is her baby and made a huge influence on her life. After high school Rachel continued her social justice journey in college attending various conferences and joining clubs that stress leadership and social justice. That's why Do Something is the pefect place for her! She is the Boot Camp Intern at Do Something and couldn't be more excited for the upcoming boot camp in New Orleans!!!

Ramil Ibrahim: Business Development Intern

Ramil is a senior at New York University, where he studies music education, sociology, and social entrepreneurship. However, his ultimate dream is to open an all-chicken restaurant, while pursuing a career in professional whistling on the side. At DoSomething, Ramil puts his dreams on hold to support the Business Development team with partnerships and campaigns. When he’s not at Do Something, Ramil can often be found shopping in supermarkets, traveling to different countries, getting too competitive at board games, and saving the world.

Samantha Smith: User Relations & Support Intern

Samantha loves volunteering and figure skating, and has background in retail management and fashion. As a New York native she refuses to leave! And so, she’s an undergraduate at New York University where she is concentrating in social enterprise and government. Her interests range from real estate to finance and she is a huge fan of U2, Bon Jovi, and Billy Joel!

Sara Bradshaw, Grants Intern

Sara is an NYU senior who doesn't like to admit she's from Long Island until someone makes fun of the place. Then she needs to stand up for her "hometown." Her major is Museum Studies, in the hopes of making her life one big field trip, and to that end she has interned at several New York museums. Sara has been known to spend hours in Barnes & Noble, armed with a pastry, magazines, and travel books, but she's really much more social than that might make her appear. She spends most of her time watching reruns of "The West Wing," writing mediocre stories, and wishing she were Indiana Jones--that is, except when she's at Do Something, where she's amazed and inspired on a daily basis by the incredible projects that teens are working on!

Sarah Piper-Goldberg, Graphic Design Intern

Sarah Piper-Goldberg (Zara, on Facebook, because it is clearly more fashionable – and no, not like the clothing store) is a Communication (Graphic) Design major at Parsons School for Design. This is her second semester in the city - she transferred here after attending Bard College at Simon's Rock, an early college in Western Mass (just don’t ask her if she is the Doogie Howser of the college world, she’s probably too young to know who he is). Sarah loves the musical RENT (to an unhealthy extent), Fiona Apple, Keyshia Cole, Lauryn Hill, Hershey’s Cookies and Cream bars (or really, anything chocolate), extreme sarcasm, and her royal blue Snuggie (the leopard print variety was released after she got hers, which was rather disappointing). As the Do Something Graphics Intern, Sarah has the privilege of staring at Nick Jonas all day while listening to early 90s throwback pop. It’s a nice life.

Tesaen Chavis, Content Intern

A junior at the New School, I cannot wait to finally walk across the stage with the knowledge of actually being done... unless I attend grad school. I major in Environmental studies and fashion marketing and before this decade is up, I do plan on greening up the fashion industry and its textiles. I'm a huge animal rights activists and I'm completely in love with my little obese Maltese doggie Maxine... like you would not believe. I have 2 stuffed animals (water buffalos) named hippo and rhino, because I don't believe in coloring within the lines and I absolutely hate classifications! Random? Perhaps not! I'm a vegetarian, was at one point a vegan, and I've managed to convert more than a few of my friends. How? I truly don't even know myself.
I live for the spontaneity of life, awkward encounters, meeting adroit people, meeting genuine people, RAKS, walking on the road less travelled, solving really intense math problems (gradient fields anyone?) and of course free stuff (for everything is that much better if you don't have to pay for it!). I can't leave out a brief mention of the graphic design intern, Sarah Piper Goldberg, and how we seem to enjoy following each other. Not only do we both currently attend the New School, we both transferred here from the same college, and even roomed together for a semester at our previous school. Hah! I'm excited to be with the Do Something team and hope to make valuable contributions while I'm here! Go Team!