Internships at Heath Outreach Partners

Juan joined HOP as an undergraduate intern while pursuing his Bachelor of Science in Public Health at San Francisco State University. During the fall of 2024, he managed HOP’s social media accounts and public health awareness calendar. He also supported our communications efforts by drafting marketing emails and researching content for future posts. Notably, Juan initiated HOP’s use of the Buffer platform and developed an administrative process to ensure its effective and consistent use.

During the 2024–2025 academic year, Aayushi interned with HOP while pursuing her Master of Public Health (MPH) at the University of San Francisco. She played a key role in supporting three major projects: the Cervical Cancer Webinar, the Silent Crisis update, and the Transportation Toolkit. Aayushi contributed significantly to the planning and research phases of each, demonstrating strong organization, clear communication, and attention to detail. She drafted learning objectives, created presentation slides, and helped vet the subject matter expert for the webinar. She also updated and reformatted the Silent Crisis and Transportation Toolkit to reflect current information, ensuring the content was accessible and accurate.

Julieta joined HOP as an undergraduate intern while pursuing her Bachelor of Science in Public Health at San Francisco State University. During the summer of 2024, she managed HOP’s social media accounts and public health awareness calendar. Julieta drafted and scheduled six months of social media content, supported communications research, and designed posts to align with outreach goals. She also documented the social media workflow, updated the public health calendar, and trained staff on how to use Asana to coordinate and publish content.

Christabel joined HOP as an undergraduate intern from San José State University in the fall of 2023. She played a key role in managing several projects, particularly on the logistical and technical side. One of her most notable contributions was planning, recording, and editing HOP’s latest podcast episode on Long COVID. Throughout her internship, Christabel became the go-to team member for tech support, webinar logistics, and video editing, bringing reliability and skill to every assignment.

Jacqueline worked with HOP in the summer of 2023 as an undergraduate Intern, pursuing her studies at San Jose St. University. She contributed her audio-visual talents to our Transportation Stories resource, as well as conducted research on trending public health topics for HOP projects.

Sara Stevens joined HOP as an undergraduate intern while pursuing her bachelors of science in Public Health with a minor in Psychology at San Jose St. University. During the summer of 2023, she conducted thorough research to support HOP’s fundraising efforts and sought out potential opportunities from foundations. Sara also supported HOP’s Social Media and communications through building marketing emails and researching future posts.

Ushuu Namarra joined HOP in the summer of 2023 as a rising junior at Yale University studying the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. Her HOP work consisted mainly of researching the historical context of health disparities in our nation’s public health past, present, and future.

Laura Campos worked with HOP as a Graduate Intern from January – May 2023 while completing her MPH from Northern Illinois University. Laura had a hand in several HOP projects, including updating the Outreach and Enrollment curriculum to reflect 2023 priorities, as well as utilizing her skills developed as an MPH student to analyze and suggest changes to HOP’s evaluation processes.

Alysa Aguilar-Hernandez interned with HOP from March – May 2023 during her final semester as an undergraduate studying public health at San Francisco State University. Alysa got a well-rounded exposure to HOP’s work, making a big impact in departments from communications to program planning. Alysa worked alongside our program staff to plan content, organize logistics and participated in our Organizational Self-Care Learning Collaborative. She also contributed to research for various projects.

Nadeen worked with HOP from December 2022 – June 2023. She was instrumental in updating HOP’s Outreach and Enrollment curriculum, conducting extensive research on the changes facing states with Medicaid redetermination following the ending of the public health emergency brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the role that community health center staff and community health workers will have to mitigate the impact of these changes.

Camille was a Communications Intern during the summer of 2022 while working towards her undergraduate degree in Public Health from San Diego State University. Her efforts on the communications team were focused on HOP’s 2022 update of its website, completed in November 2022. Camille also worked on creating a communications calendar and updating HOP’s social media across its accounts.

Deanna Canales joined HOP as a graduate intern during the summer of 2022 while she was an MPH student at San Jose State University. Deanna’s primary focus was planning, recruiting participants, and conducting interviews for HOP’s resource on transportation “Telling Their Stories”. She also contributed to HOP’s communication and evaluation efforts, providing updates and insight from her graduate work. In March of 2023, HOP was proud to bring on Deanna as a Project Manager and a full-time member of the HOP team!

Vanessa interned at HOP during the fall of 2021 as an undergraduate student majoring in public health at San Jose State University. She worked closely with HOP’s executive director on the Special and Vulnerable Population-Diabetes Task Force National Learning Webinar Series. In this role she managed the technical aspects of registration and evaluation as well as contributed to the Enabling Services content. Vanessa also designed HOP’s Strategic Plan publication for our Board of Directors.

Jayvon worked with HOP during the summer of 2020 as an MPH student at San Jose St. University. He primarily worked on developing HOP’s Organizational Self-Care resource alongside HOP Project Managers. He also contributed to HOP program work through his writing and live facilitation.