Geography student awarded internship at National Geographic headquarters
12/18/2006
Jaimi DeFeo
NEW PALTZ -- Jaimi DeFeo (Yorktown Heights), a senior geography major at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has been awarded a National Geographic Society internship in Washington, D.C. for the spring 2007 semester. Her internship is in the digital media division.
Since receiving her two-year degree from the New England School of Photography in Boston in 1989, DeFeo said her ultimate career goal was to work at National Geographic. Now, after a successful 15-year career as a photographer and nearing the completion of her degree at New Paltz, she is finally getting a chance to fulfill that dream, utilizing both her prior professional and current academic experience.
“It worked out – I still got what I wanted,” said DeFeo.
The internship program accommodates 22 students throughout the year at society headquarters in Washington, D.C. DeFeo was selected through a highly competitive process involving college juniors, seniors and master's students nationwide.
National Geographic Digital Media publishes www.nationalgeographic.com; manages marketing and content partnerships across broadband, mobile, gaming and other consumer digital platforms; and provides video and film footage to commercial, theatrical, educational and other digital footage markets.
Lawrence McGlinn, of the Geography Department at New Paltz, said DeFeo is very deserving of this internship.
“Jaimi's talent, attention to detail and passion have been obvious to me since the first day I met her,” said McGlinn, who serves as DeFeo’s advisor. ”She is among the very best students I have taught over the past 16 years. I know she will do us proud."
Located in the heart of a dynamic college town, 90 minutes from metropolitan New York City, the State University of New York at New Paltz is a highly selective college of about 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
One of the most well-regarded public colleges in the nation, New Paltz delivers an extraordinary number of majors in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Fine and Performing Arts and Education.
New Paltz embraces its culture as a community where talented and independent minded people from around the world create close personal links with real scholars and artists who love to teach.
