Kathleen Magee '17 - Clark-Fox Family Foundation

Clark-Fox Family Foundation – Intern, Summer 2020

Current Position: Intern at the Clark-Fox Family Foundation

Currently, I am a senior at Creighton University majoring in American Studies and English, with a minor in Digital Humanities. I attended the 2020 Alumnae Internship Networking (INC) event during my junior year of college because I wanted to find an internship with a non-profit that did work to help people in the St. Louis area.

At INC, I met with the Clark-Fox Family Foundation, which is a non-profit that supports the growth and prosperity of the St. Louis metropolitan region through research, program development and investments in PK-12, higher education, public health, immigration, social justice and racial equity, community leadership, and entrepreneurship. I established a great connection with them and they reached out to me in the Spring of 2020 to see if I was interested in working as an intern over the summer (which I was) and I was hired for the Summer of 2020.

At Clark-Fox, I primarily worked on creating an interactive map showing Black-owned businesses in St. Louis for an organization called “For the Culture STL” to use on their website. The map now has close to 20,000 views!

Although I was working from home, I still built strong connections with the folks at Clark-Fox and was able to do work that I was proud of. Because of this internship, I am positive that I want to continue to do public service work and create programs that help people. I’m really glad that I decided to attend INC because it led to a really incredible internship experience that helped me establish really great professional relationships. It also gave me confidence in knowing exactly what career path I am interested in pursuing. I will also continue interning for Clark-Fox over my Christmas break this year!