Kalayah Frazier
Staff Writer
The first Career, Community and Internship Expo hosted by the Academic and Career Services Office, College of Business, history and political science department and Office of Civic and Community Engagement was held Wednesday at Sneaky Park.
The event included internship opportunities with tables of different businesses around the Pomona area such as Pomona Valley Pride, Tri City Mental Health and Pomona Hope.
About 60 guests attended the event.
Guests got to enjoy refreshments alongside taco restaurant catering called Ask 4 Tacos.
Multiple organizations attended with active hiring needs.
Pomona Valley Pride employee Adrianna Lopez talked about the goal of the business, which is to keep people that are a part of the LGBTQ+ community safe. This is done by providing support services in the program.
“We serve the LGBTQ community and allies in the Pomona Valley area,” Lopez said. “We offer different resources like therapy, for example. We also host community pop ups where we give out free clothes and harm reduction materials.”
“The only thing that we require when you apply is to have experience working with people beforehand,” Lopez said.
“We provide behavioral and mental health services to the cities of Pomona, La Verne and Claremont,” Tri-City Mental Health employee Michelle Robinson said. “We’re advertising some of our volunteer programs today, which is our peer mentor program that students can get involved with and or our service learner program.”
Pomona Hope employee Shantee McKella shared that their business helps multiple communities by offering workshops for students to attend and possibly lead.
“Whether it be your area of study, or just an area that you’re personally passionate about, you can lead a workshop on it,” McKella said. “We also have federal work study opportunities where you can actually be compensated to come in and be a workshop leader.”
Junior political science major Rania Kartouch thought that this was a great event that really helped her think about her future opportunities that are there for her.
“I do think that most of the recruits that they send out here are advertising their internships or their jobs or things like that,” Kartouch said. “They’re really genuine about it.”
Kalayah Frazier can be reached at kalayah.frazier@laverne.edu.
Kalayah Frazier is a sophomore journalism major with a concentration in print-online journalism. She is calendar editor and a staff photographer for the Campus Times. She has previously served as a staff writer.
