Executives & Staff
: Past Interns
Brooke Feldman
InternBrooke Feldman is an intern for the Global Perspectives Office; she researches Israeli/Palestinian Relations. Feldman's interests range from the impact of globalization on indigenous cultures to environmental degradation. She is completing her senior year Trinity Preparatory School. Upon graduatoin, Brooke plans to study anthropology and international relations in college. She has studied abroad in Israel and spent a summer teaching in a small Costa Rican village. Feldman, a native to Central Florida, speaks conversational Spanish.
Mohenna Sarkar
InternMohenna Sarkar is an intern in the Global Perspectives Office. She is a sophomore at Haverford College, majoring in Political Science and Environmental Science with a minor in East Asian Studies. She is an active member of Amnesty International and her college’s student government. Her research interests are in environmental sustainability and international political theory and after graduation she intends to further her education by attending law school. Born in India, Sarkar has also lived in the Middle East before moving to the United States. Along with her native languages of Bengali and Hindi, she is also conversational in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.
Chelsea Smith
Intern
Chelsea Smith is a high-school intern for the Global Perspectives Office and Diplomacy Program. She is a senior in the International Baccalaureate Program at Seminole High School and, upon graduation, plans to study international business. She has traveled throughout Europe and the United States. A Central Florida native, she speaks Spanish.
Gaston Blanchet
Intern
Gaston Blanchet is an intern for the Global Perspectives Office and Diplomacy Program. Gaston is a Junior at UCF, pursuing a B.A. in Management. During his senior year, he plans to pursue a yearlong International Business exchange program in France.Gaston is fluent in Spanish, conversational in German, and is currently learning Mandarin. Upon graduation, he plans to pursue an M.B.A in Shanghai, China. Gaston was born in Buenos Aires, and grew up in Vienna, Austria, before moving to the States.
Kelsey Wohlman
Intern
Kelsey Wohlman is an Intern for the Global Perspectives Department and Diplomacy Program. She is a senior at UCF pursuing a B.A. in Political Science, International Studies with a dual minor in Middle Eastern Studies and Psychology. International travel and culture are particular areas of interest to her. After spending the last summer interning in Washington, D.C. with the U.S. State Department, she has decided to pursue a career with the Foreign Service after graduation in December. She has lived throughout the United States, as well as in England, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia.
Paula Ferreira
Intern
Paula Ferreira is an Intern for the Global Perspectives Office and Diplomacy Program. She is a senior at Rollins College pursuing a B.A. in International Affairs. Her areas of interest are Middle Eastern politics and culture. She plans to travel to the Middle East in the near future. She is a native of Brazil with an Italian background and speaks Portuguese, Spanish, French and some Italian. She has traveled throughout Europe, the United States and Latin America. In addition, Paula has been a resident of Central Florida for 12 years and plans to continue on to Law school after her graduation.
William Jarvis
Global Connections Scholar
William Jarvis is a Global Connections Scholar for the Global Perspectives Office, the Diplomacy Program, the Terrorism Studies Program and the Global Connections Foundation. He was previously an intern. His studies focus on macro-history and philosophy, and he has traveled to Hungary and the Czech Republic. In 2007, Jarvis graduated from Rollins College with a degree in International Affairs. He has career interests in law, diplomacy and fiction-writing.
Lori-Ann Barnett
Intern
Lori-Ann Barnett is an intern for the Global Perspectives Office and Diplomacy Program. She graduated from UCF in 2007, with a B.A. in Political Science (International Relations and Comparative Politics) and a minor in Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies. Barnett was previously an intern at the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs. She is pursuing a master’s in public administration, with an international emphasis, at UCF. Born in Jamaica, she speaks French and Spanish.
Evelyn Tonn
Intern
Evelyn Tonn is an intern for the Global Perspectives Office and the Diplomacy Program. She was a Lawrence J. Chastang Global Fellow in the Fall of 2006. She is a senior Political Science: International Relations Major in the Burnett Honors College. She is currently writing her Honors in the Major Thesis ??Globalization vs. Localization: A comparative global analysis of the attitudes of University Students? She was a recipient of the 2006 David L. Boren National Security Education Program Scholarship to study Arabic at the University of Jordan and has studied abroad at Cambridge University.
Fernando Gonzalez
Intern
Fernando Gonzalez is an Intern for the Global Perspectives Office. He is a junior at UCF majoring in Political Science-International Relations and Comparative Politics. He has traveled through out the Caribbean and the United States and plans on traveling through out the Middle East, which is an area of interest to him. Having been born in Puerto Rico he is fluent in Spanish and has lived the majority of his life in Central Florida. After graduating, he plans to attend law school with an emphasis in international law.
